Court Opinion

ID: 9824720
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 11:11:14.79672+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:39:59.901640
License: Public Domain

SAMFORD, J.
[1] It is first insisted that the indictment does not charge that any part of the liquor manufactured contained alcohol. The insistence is hypercritical. The indictment charges the manufacture of prohibited liquors in the language of the statute, and is sufficient.
The next insistence is that there was not sufficient evidence to connect the defendant with the manufacture of this particular liquor. We have read the record and find no difficulty in reaching the conclusion that the state’s evidence was sufficient on which to-base a verdict of conviction.
[2] Charge A predicates an acquittal upon a part of the evidence, and for that reason is bad.
Charges B and C were covered by given charge 1. •
[3] Charge D requires an acquittal -based upon a reasonable doubt in the mind of one juror, and for that reason is bad.
[4] The motion of the defendant, to exclude the answer of the witness Hatley, that the defendant was drinking, at the time he was arrested at or near the still, was properly overruled. The answer was material and,- being at the time and place where the liquor' was alleged to have been manufactured, was a part of the res gestae.
[5] If it was error to have admitted the testimony of the witness Amos, as to what malt was used for, because he had not qualified as an expert, the error was immediately cured by making proof of the facts necessary to lay a proper predicate.
[6] In qualifying as an expert, the witness Amos explained that in making whisky the corn is sprouted and then ground. The court then asked: “Was this malt or any part of it used in making whisky?” This was proper in connecting the malted corn with the manufacture of whisky, otherwise there would have been no connection between the malting of the corn and the distilling of the whisky.
We find no error in the record, and the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.

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