State v. Oglesby

The defendant, appellant, was prosecuted on a bill of information charging that on a certain day he had intoxicating liquor in his possession for sale for beverage purposes, in violation of Act 39 of 1921 (Ex. Sess.), p. 42. It was charged also that that was the defendant’s second violation of the statute, in that he had been convicted previously of manufacturing intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes. On trial the defendant protested that he was not only innocent of the alleged second offense, but that he was not the same J. P. Oglesby who was convicted of the alleged first offense. The…