
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, February 23, 1991                   TAG: 9102230345
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A-4   EDITION: BEDFORD/FRANKLIN 
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DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT                                LENGTH: Short

FRANKLIN BROTHERS' MOONSHINE TAX CUT

Two Franklin County brothers won a reduction Friday in a state tax bill stemming from income they did not report from sales of moonshine in 1987.

Billy and Wallace Crowe admitted selling 21,000 gallons of untaxed whiskey they manufactured at a still in Botetourt County.

Their attorney, Richard Lee Lawrence, argued Friday that estimates by the state Department of Taxation that the Crowes sold the moonshine for $11 per gallon were too high.

Judge Samuel Hairston, during a hearing Friday in Franklin County Circuit Court, put the price at $5.33 a gallon.

Lawrence estimated that the Crowes now owe the state approximately half of earlier estimates. In 1988, the state Department of Taxation filed liens seeking to recover $12,878 in taxes and penalties from each brother.

- Staff report

by CNB