Hilton v. Commonwealth

The accused has been convicted under an indictment which (omitting the introductory and concluding words) charged the offense in this language: “That O. B. Hilton, within one year next prior to the finding of this indictment, to-wit; on the 3rd day of December, 1921, did unlawfully have in his possession, buried, concealed and stored in the ground of the basement of a house he, the said O. B. Hilton, was then erecting at Pembroke, in said county, to be used by him as a hotel, twenty gallons of ardent spirits, held in two containers of ten gallons each.”

1. There was a demurrer to this…