Lang v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County; W. W. Harralson, Judge. Bob Lang was convicted of manufacturing prohibited liquor, and appeals.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Marshall County; W. W. Harralson, Judge. Bob Lang was convicted of manufacturing prohibited liquor, and appeals. The indictment as to punctuation, etc., is as follows: The grand jury of said county charge that, before the finding of this indictment, Bob Lang distilled, made or manufactured alcoholic, spirituous, malted or mixed liquors or beverages, a part of which was alcoholic, since January 25, 1919, against the peace and dignity of the state of Alabama. The demurrers are that it does not aver that alcohol constituted a part of the liquors named in the…
1Opinion of the CourtSamford, J.
[1, 2] The contention presented by demurrer to the indictment is hypercritical.’ As 'punctuated the indictment charges a manufacturing or distilling of alcoholic liquors since January 25, 1919. The demurrer to the indictment was properly overruled.
[3] The motion to strike the cause from the docket was properly overruled. Kuykendall v. State (8 Div. 738) 17 Ala. App. 582, 87 South. 878.
The proposition raised by the plea in abatement is that the offense charged in the indictment arose within the territory embraced in precincts 4, 5, 13, 16, 18, 20, 22, and that part of 24 lying on Sand Mountain…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Kuykendall v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1917
- Kuykendall v. StateAlabama Court of Appeals · 1920
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