Shaw v. State

D. W. Shaw, appellant, was convicted in the Circuit Court of Forrest County of the possession of integral *825parts of a whiskey still, and sentenced to serve three years in the state penitentiary. Mississippi Code 1942, Rec., section 2632 makes it a felony for any person “to own or control or have in his or its possession any distillery commonly called a still or any integral part thereof.”

Appellant contends the state did not show the constituent elements of the offense, and he is entitled to a peremptory instruction or in the alternative a new trial. Section 2632 requires the state to prove…