Powell v. State

Citations

• 128 Miss. 107
• 90 So. 625

Syllabus

<p>Intoxicating Liquors. Evidence held sufficient to sustain conviction of attempt to distill.</p> <p>The evidence is sufficient to sustain a conviction of attempt to distill ■ intoxicating liquors where it is shown that the accused, with others, on motorcars transported a copper still and apparatus, sugar, shorts, bran, barrels,, and other distilling equipment and camping outfit to an isolated spot near a spring and creek, in the woods, and were arrested while removing part of the distilling outfit from the mired car to the suitable spot intended, part of the d-'stilling apparatus being removed to the spot before interruption; such acts being proximate and overt toward the consummation.of the crime intended.</p>