after stating the case: There was ample evidence to support the verdict, and the motion to nonsuit was properly overruled. The evidence tended to show that defendant had been engaged in the business of manufacturing liquor. He had on his premises and in his residence all the component parts of a perfect apparatus for distilling liquor, and if others assisted in the process of manufacturing, there was also evidence that the defendant not only permitted the illegal business to be done in his house, but actually furnished the still and the place for using it, and this would make him a participant in the crime.
The charge of the court that if the defendant took part in the offense by giving his permission to the use of his premises for the illegal purpose, he would be guilty, is clearly sustained by the case of S. v. Fenton, 154 N. C., 641, where this Court held, as shown by the headnotes,
And this Court added in S. v. Denton, supra: “If the defendant knowingly permitted Hodge to use his home for the illicit sale of whiskey on one occasion, he is an aider and abettor on that occasion; and it is as much a violation of law as if he habitually permitted it.”
That case was decided by a divided Court (two of the justices dissenting), but, even under the view held by the dissenting justices, the charge here could be sustained. This case is much stronger to show defendant’s actual participation, as an aider and abettor, than the Denton case, for under the instruction of the Court the jury must have found that defendant did more than assent tacitly to the manufacture of liquor, and that he “aided and assisted” by contributing the use of his premises to the unlawful purpose. He is just as guilty, under the statute (Public Laws of 1917, eh. 157), as if he had furnished the still or the corn and apples, or the coal and wood to make the fire, or any other material used in the manufacture of the liquor.
The mere knowledge of the use of premises by a distiller and consent thereto of one who holds a mortgage on the same is made a ground of forfeiture by him of his interest under the act of Congress. U. S. v. Stowell, 133 U. S., 1; Glenn v. Winstead, 116 N. C., 454.
The exceptions as to the use of the photograph for the purpose of allowing one of the witnesses to illustrate or explain his testimony is not well taken. The witness was endeavoring to show how the parts of the distillery which were found in the house might be assembled so as to make a complete apparatus for manufacturing liquor. He could use a diagram for the purpose, and why not a photograph? The trial judge
Photographs have been admitted in evidence with the sanction of the courts in similar eases. Butler v. State, 142 Ga., 286; Wade v. R. R., 89 S. C., 280; Griffith v. Coal Co., 84 S. E., 621; Spencer v. Looney, 116 Va., 767; Prok v. R. R., 75 W. Va., 697; Napier v. Little, 38 L. R. A. (N. S.), 91 (Anno. Cases, 1913 A, 1013); Shaw v. State, 83 Ga., 92; and in S. v. O’Reilly, 126 Mo., 597, where it is said: “It has always been permissible to use diagrams in the trial of causes, both civil and criminal, and especially in the latter class to use diagrams, if shown to be correct, to illustrate the position of persons and places and to better enable the witnesses to properly locate them. If, then, a diagram may be used for such a purpose, we can see no good reason why a photograph may not be, by which is presented to view everything within the range of the camera at the time the photograph was taken.”
We have permitted photographs to be used, instead of diagrams, under circumstances making the latter competent, when they were shown to have been correctly taken. Hampton v. R. R., 120 N. C., 534; Davis v. R. R., 136 N. C., 116; Pickett v. R. R., 153 N. C., 148; Hoyle v. Hickory, 167 N. C., 619. As we said in the Hickory case, it might be impossible to illustrate the situation, or to give the jury a correct idea of it in any other way. If the correctness of the picture is shown, we do not see why it should be less competent than a diagram, or a drawing made by the witness for purposes of illustration at the time- he testified.
No error.