Earle v. State

The jury, in the court below, returned a verdict finding appellant guilty as charged in the second count of an affidavit filed in that court December 21, 1921, and obviously predicated upon the particular provision of the statute following: “It shall be unlawful for any person to manufacture, transport, possess, sell, barter, exchange, give away, furnish-or otherwise dispose of any intoxicating liquor.” Acts 1921 p. 736, §8356d Burns’ Supp. 1921, amending §4, Acts 1917 p. 15.

Appellant met the charge thus preferred, first, by filing what he termed a plea in abatement to which, for want of…