Parsons v. State

• Decision Date: 19 May 1925
• Docket Number: 6 Div. 670
• Citation: Parsons v. State, 104 So. 556, 20 Ala.App. 615 (Ala. App. 1925)
• Parties: PARSONS v. STATE.
• Court: Alabama Court of Appeals

104 So. 556

20 Ala.App. 615

PARSONS v. STATE.

6 Div. 670

Court of Appeals of Alabama

May 19, 1925

Appeal from Circuit Court, Tuscaloosa County; Fleetwood Rice, Judge.

Taylor Parsons was convicted of manufacturing prohibited liquors and he appeals. Reversed and remanded.

Pinkney Scott, of Bessemer, for appellant.

Harwell G. Davis, Atty. Gen., and Lamar Field, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State.

RICE J.

The defendant was convicted of the offense of distilling, etc and appeals.

The evidence, in its strongest aspects for the state, was to the effect that "some liquor and a still were found about 300 yards from what is described as the 'Goode Franklin place or house'; that it was not known who lived there that some rubber shoes, a sack of rice, four empty sugar sacks, some letters addressed to Bill Hougue, a bill to Taylor Parsons (the defendant), marked paid, from Huey Grain Company, Bessemer, Ala., for four sacks of sugar were found in the house; that the still was about a 400-gallon copper still, full of beer (at the time); that in the house was also a wool shirt with charcoal in it, that smelled of whisky that the still was not in operation; that it was not in any inclosure, but in the open woods; that there was a plain path leading from the house to the still; that in it were tracks made with rubber shoes; that defendant in the spring of the year in which the above things were found agreed with Goode Franklin, the owner of the house in question to rent the place for the year, but that he was never seen there."

The defendant denied any ownership of, knowledge of, or connection with, the...