Schenher v. State

. PRICE, Judge.

The indictment, omitting the formal parts, charged that appellant “unlawfully did possess, sell, furnish or give away codeine, a narcotic drug, contrary to law and against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.” The case was tried by the court without the intervention of a jury. Defendant was found guilty of the “offense of possession of narcotics as charged in the indictment,” and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for a term of two years.

The evidence presented by the State tends to show that on the 9th day of December, 1955, Joe Lockler and a man named…