100 years ago
March 8, 1923
‘Razz’ Miller gets $200 fine; 120 days in jail.
“Razz” Miller, the moonshiner, who has been occupying a berth in the county jail since his still was captured about one month ago and about 20 gallons of moonshine whiskey, with a still, taken in a raid at Blooms Landing, appeared before County Judge John Day at Hardin Monday and pled guilty to operating a still and to selling moonshine whiskey.
The State’s Attorney filed information in the county after Miller had been bound over to the May term of circuit court in the sum of a $500 bond before a justice court.
Miller wanted to plead guilty before the county judge and not take any chances with the grand jury, so State’s Attorney Worthy allowed him to do this.
Judge Day gave Miller a $100 fine in each county with a sixty-day jail sentence fastened onto each count.
Moonshining in the Kingdom of Calhoun comes high before Judge Day. Henry Pehm, who is charged with the same counts, in connection with Miller, is out on bond and his case will come before the May setting of our county’s grand jury, providing he doesn’t want a dose of the Day medicine, also.
