Court Opinion

ID: 3243523
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 16:16:22.387352+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T11:00:11.371547
License: Public Domain

This appellant, and another not on trial, were indicted at the September term, 1922, of the circuit court of Lauderdale county for distilling, making or manufacturing alcoholic, spirituous or malt liquors contrary to law. The indictment also contained a second count, charging in proper form the unlawful possession of a still by defendant. After hearing the testimony and charge of the court, etc., the jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the first count, and judgment was pronounced and entered accordingly; the court fixing the punishment at not less than one year and one day, nor more than thirteen months' imprisonment in the penitentiary. From this judgment defendant appeals.
The only exception reserved during this trial was to the action of the court in overruling the objection interposed by defendant to the statement made by state witness J.O. Davis on his redirect examination, who, in response to the question, "And in your judgment were the men you arrested the same men that had the buckets and lantern?" Replied, "Yes; there is no question in my mind but they were the same men." The record shows that the question was pronounced and the answer given before objection was interposed; it therefore came too late. The exception is without merit, for the further reason it was competent for the state to identify the defendant and his associate, also indicted, as the men who were seen by the state's witnesses to carry water from the branch and pour it in the flake trough of the still, which was at the time shown by the testimony to be in full operation.
This being the only question presented, and as the ruling of the court in this connection was entirely free from error, the appeal of the defendant must fall and the judgment affirmed, which is accordingly ordered.
Affirmed.