Bridgeforth v. State

The prosecution was commenced by affidavit in which the defendant was charged with having in her possession “prohibed” liquors contrary to law. A demurrer was interposed to the affidavit, one of the grounds assigned being “that it fails to aver that the defendant had prohibited liquors in her possession contrary to law.”

In Wood v. State, 50 Ala. 144, the indictment charged that the defendant “unlawfully and with malice aforethought”, assaulted another with intent to murder him. The court said:

“No doubt, the county solicitor by a slip of the pen omitted the letter ‘1’ from the word which he…