Court Opinion

ID: 8311124
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-10-17 13:48:27.382582+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:44:43.851131
License: Public Domain

Simonton, J.
The evidence in this case is that the defendant erected for one Sessions a shanty in which was put up an illlieit still. There is no evidence that he ever worked in or about the distillery after the still was set up. The defendant asks that the jury be instructed 1o find a verdict of not guilty. The section of the Revised Statutes punishes “every person who works in any distillery * * * on which no sign is placed and kept.” Section 3279. Evidently this means, working in any establishment or place in which distilled liquors are made. The fact that no sign is placed and kept on the distillery is the gist of the offense. The first part of this section requires the sign to be put up by a person engaged in distilling. The work that defendant did in putting up the shanty is not the work in a distillery forbidden by this section. The jury will find a verdict of not guilty.