People v. Martin

At the April term of the county court of Franklin county, Illinois, the State’s attorney of said county filed an information in said court against plaintiff in error for alleged violation of the Prohibition act. The information contained three counts, the first of which alleged “that William IT. Martin on the 25th day of January, in the year of our Lord 1923, at and within said county of Franklin, in the State of Illinois aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully have and possess a still, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc. The second count alleged “that William H. Martin on the 25th…