Mayfield v. State

An affidavit was made by J. B. Kelley, before a justice of tbe peace, charging appellant and another man with the ■ crime of robbery and of giving away whiskey, and upon this affidavit a warrant' of arrest issued in which appellant was charged with the commission of those 'crimes.

There was an examining trial before the justice of the peace, at the conclusion of which the justice entered the following judgment: “The court dismisses the robbery, believing the evidence insufficient to .sustain the case of felony. In whiskey case the court finds the defendant guilty of transporting whiskey and…