The defendant’s exception presents the question whether the instruction as to the manufacture of the beer constitutes reversible error. The charge must be considered in its entirety, and must be construed with reference to the evidence. Hodges v. Wilson, 165 N. C., 323; Donnell v. Greensooro, 164 N. C., 332. His Honor, after telling the jury that the defendant could not be convicted unless they should find from the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that he had engaged in the manufacture of liquor, gave the further instruction that if they should find from the evidence beyond a reasonable, doubt that the defendant, at any time within two years before the indictment was returned, had manufactured the beer, Whether or not he had actually distilled it, they should return a verdict of guilty. Considered as an isolated proposition, the instruction would probably be subject to criticism, but when we consider the charge as a whole and in the light of the evidence we construe the instruction as meaning that if the jury should find from' the evidence that the defendant made the beer they should then find that he was engaged in one of the processes of the unlawful manufacture of liquor, and if engaged in such process, he was engaged in such unlawful manufacture, and was guilty, as charged in the indictment. This interpretation brings the instruction within the principle discussed in S. v. Blackwell, 180 N. C., 733. While the defendant had not produced the completed product, he was engaged in the prohibited manufacture. The instruction should have been more definite, but we are not prepared to say that it constituted reversible- error. The other exceptions are untenable, and require no discussion.
The judgment is
Affirmed.