POPE v. STATE

No. 41911.

240 Miss. 699 (1961)

128 So.2d 379

POPE v. STATE.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

April 3, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laurel G. Weir, Philadelphia, for appellant.

G. Garland Lyell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellee.


McGEHEE, C.J.

The appellant, Leo Pope, was tried and convicted under an indictment charging that he and another "did wilfully, unlawfully and feloniously have in their possession an integral part of a distillery, commonly called a still."

The officers, including E.G. Barnett, Sheriff of Neshoba County, Richard Willis, a policeman of the City of Philadelphia, Mississippi, Jack Warner, Sheriff of Winston County and John Stewart, a deputy sheriff, all testified...

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