Ring v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted under the statute which reads as follows:

“No person shall keep in his possession any still-worm or still without registering the same with the proper United States officer, and no person shall set up to be used as a distillery any still-worm or substitute therefor and a still or substitute therefor, such as a kettle, washpot, metal tank, or any other vessel of any kind for the purpose of using same, or which, after being so set up, may be used for the production of distilled spirits.” Acts of 1921, p. 372.

The language of the charging part of the indictment…