Pinkerton v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

The defendant appeals from a conviction below of violating the prohibition law by having in possession, illegally, whiskey in Fayette — a dry — County.

The corpus delicti was sufficiently established and the evidence was ample to support the judgment of conviction.

The indictment was, on February 28, 1940, duly presented in open court to the presiding judge by the foreman of the grand jury in the presence of the remaining seventeen grand jurors. It was accordingly endorsed and marked “filed” on said date and “signed” by the clerk of the court.' This was a sufficient and accurate…