Blankenshire v. State

The present prosecution was commenced and tried before a justice of the peace of Wilcox county, and carried by appeal from the justice’s judgment to the County Court. The affidavit and warrant sued out, on which tlie trial and conviction were had before the justice, are defective, and fail to-charge any offense known to the law. No 'objection for insufficiency of the affidavit or warrant is shown to have been made b’efore the justice of the peace, but the trial appears to have been had on the merits alone. The charge in the original affidavit and warrant is, that defendant had “killed a hog,…