Ousley v. State

Appellant was indicted and convicted in the circuit court of Warren county of unlawfully possessing a still for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor, and sentenced to the penitentiary for a term of one and one-half years. From that judgment, appellant prosecutes this appeal.

For a reversal of the judgment appellant relies principally on the action of the court in overruling his demurrer to the indictment. Appellant contends that the indictment charged no offense under the statute, because there was left out of it the word “knowingly.” Appellant was charged in the indictment with a violation…