State v. Green

HatcheR, Judge:

The defendants were found guilty of owning, operating, and having an interest in a moonshine still, by a jury of Boone County, and by the Circuit Court thereof given the minimum sentence under the statute.

Prohibition Officer Lee Cook, who is now dead, and Constable Landen White found and watched a barrel of mash hidden in a wood in Boone County. About dark the four defendants came to the place where the mash was concealed. White testified in effect that the defendants brought with them a big copper kettle, which they set up on some rocks; that the weather indicated an…