CATES, Judge.
Borrowing from the common law principles of larceny, our Legislature has inserted in the prohibition law a provision that the unexplained possession of any part of a still can constitute prima facie evidence of violation of Article 3, T. 29 of the Code.
Here the State showed a complete still. But no one was about when the witnesses saw it. The land title was not in evidence. Common repute was that the defendant's father had owned it in his lifetime...
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