Slater v. State

BOULDIN, Justice.

The important question presented on this petition for certiorari to the Court of Appeals is: Does an affidavit charging defendant with a “violation of the prohibition law” support the issuance of a warrant of arrest, a judgment of conviction of the defendant in the county court, and a judgment of the circuit court on appeal convicting defendant of having possession of prohibited liquors?

The inquiry goes to the constitutional guaranties of due process of law. Among these are the provisions of the Bill of Rights forbidding the issuance of a warrant of arrest “without probable…