Porter v. State

The indictment charged in the first count the manufacture of prohibited liquors and in the second count the unlawful possession of a still.

The motion to quash the venire was properly overruled.

The effect of the act approved August 18, 1919 (Local Acts 1919, p. 62), was to divide Jefferson county into two separate and distinct .circuit court districts, the division sitting at Bessemer having exclusive jurisdiction within its specified territory. The judge of the Bessemer division of the circuit court of Jefferson county properly drew the jurors from a box containing only the names of those…