Raise a glass...

...in memory of the Queen.

Maggie Bailey, known as "The Queen of the Mountain Bootleggers," died of complications from pneumonia Saturday at Harlan Appalachian Regional Hospital. The Kentucky legend, who began selling moonshine when she was 17 and was still selling alcohol from her modest home at Clovertown in Harlan County when she was 95, was 101. Over and over again, often despite a preponderance of evidence against her, Mrs. Bailey beat charges of illegally selling alcoholic beverages. Juries just would not convict her. [...]

Mrs. Bailey was well-liked and well-respected, and she often helped poor Harlan Countians, buying coal to heat their homes in the winter and giving them grocery money so they would not go hungry, friends said. Mrs. Bailey put several children through college. Anybody who wanted to get elected went to see Maggie Bailey, Halcomb said. [...]

"I represented her for a number of years. I always thought she was a delightful lady," said U.S. District Judge Karl Forester. "She was an expert on the Fourth Amendment. She knew the laws of search and seizure as well as any person I've known," he said.

Forester recalled once representing Mrs. Bailey on bootlegging charges at six trials on the same day. "We had six acquittals at three different courts in the same day," he said.

Hell of a story.