Spencer v. Commonwealth

Kelly, P.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

*688The defendant, Eugene Spencer, a youth eighteen years old, was found guilty of violating the State prohibition law (Acts 1918, p. 678), and was sentenced, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, to a term of one month in jail and the payment of a fine of five hundred dollars.

There were several counts in the indictment, and the jury returned a general verdict; but the sole question before us is whether the evidence was sufficient to prove that the defendant was a participant in the operation of a still for the manufacture of ardent spirits.

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