Jones v. State
Alabama Court of Appeals
Appeal from Circuit Court, Coffee County; A. B. Foster, Judge. Earnest Jones and others were convicted of manufacturing spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, and they appeal. The defendants were indicted in the same indictment with three others on a charge of manufacturing spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors contrary to law.
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Coffee County; A. B. Foster, Judge. Earnest Jones and others were convicted of manufacturing spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors, and they appeal. The defendants were indicted in the same indictment with three others on a charge of manufacturing spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors contrary to law. On the trial,’ as shown by the judgment, there was a nol. pros, entered as to the three others, and without objection the defendants interposed a plea of not guilty. There was verdict and judgment of conviction, and from the judgment these defendants appeal. There is no…
1Opinion of the CourtSamford, J.
The judgment entry alone recites the nol. pros, as to Riley Wise, Homer Wise, and John Wise, who were jointly in-dieted with these defendants, and then proceeds to recite the verdict of the jury convicting these defendants, and the judgment rendered thereon, as follows:
“Defendants Earnest Jones, Joe Williams, and Monroe Terry being in open court, and to the indictment as read to the jury the defendants each plead not guilty; thereupon came a jury of good and lawful men, to wit,-, foreman, and eleven others, who upon their oaths do say: ‘We, the jury, find defendants guilty and assess a fine…
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