McGee v. State

[1] This court does not favor reversals of the judgments of the»nisi prius courts on technical rulings which work no, injury to the appellants.- However, orderly procedure and regulated methods, in the indictment, trial, and conviction or acquittal of those charged with crime, must-be preserved —otherwise, we would drift into chaos, thence on into- anarchy.

In this case the appellant was regularly charged by indictment only with the offense of having in his possession a still, etc., to be used for the purpose of manufacturing alcoholic, spirituous, or malted liquors, etc., contrary to law,…