Dont know how many of you have heard of this guy...but he probably the most famous moonshiner to ever live.
Anywho...he was convicted in January on several charges related to "makin the good old corn likker", so popular around this part of the world.
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Sutton's last arrest followed a raid in which authorities found nearly 1,700 gallons of moonshine in Parrottsville and a storage unit in Maggie Valley, N.C., three stills, supplies, firearms and ammunition.
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As it turns out...seems 18 months of prison was too much for him to handle, so he got into his Ford Fairlane...hooked up a hose to the exhaust and said goodbye to his time on earth.
A real character and someone who was a link to the past days of moonshinin'.
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Sutton — nicknamed "Popcorn" for smashing up a 10-cent popcorn machine in a bar with a pool cue in his 20s — looked like a living caricature of a mountain moonshiner. He wore a long gray beard, faded overalls, checkered shirt and feathered fedora. He made his home in Cocke County, where cockfighting and moonshining are legend.
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