Williams v. State

The indictment under which appellant was tried and convicted reads as follows (omitting the caption and formal part) :

“The said defendant, on the 13th day of February, 1922, in Columbia County, Arkansas, did unlawfully and feloniously make mash fit for distillation, said defendant not being such a person as is authorized under the laws of the United States to manufacture sweet cider, vinegar or other non-alcoholic beverages, or spirits other than beverage purposes.”

The indictment was an attempt to charge an offense under the first section of act No. 324 of the General Assembly of the year…