Goff & Hunt v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Clarke

Affirming as to Hunt bnt reversing as to Goff.

Appellants were jointly indicted, tried together, and both convicted of having in their possession parts of a moonshine still.

*347For reversal their first insistence is that the court erroneously overruled their demurrer to the indictment. The only criticism of the indictment is that it fails to-charge that the offense, a misdemeanor, was committed before the finding of the indictment and within the preceding twelve months. In this counsel are clearly mistaken. It. is alleged therein that the acts -constituting the…