Jones v. State

The appellant was convicted in the county court of Leflore county, on an information by the county attorney, charging that she “did then and there unlawfully and knowingly have in her possession malted liquors,” etc. She appealed to the circuit court, where the judgment was affirmed, and then brought the case to this court. The record does not contain the evidence on which the ease was tried.

The error here assigned is that the information fails to charge an offense. The prosecution is based on sections 1 and 2, chapter 189, Laws 1918 (Hemingway’s 1927 Code, sections 2279' and 2280), which…