Ratliff v. State

The appellant was convicted of violating the prohibition laws. The first count of the indictment charged the manufacture of prohibited liquors, and the second count charged the possession of a still to be used for manufacturing prohibited liquors. There was a general verdict of guilty.

The indictment follows the language of the statutes under which each count was drawn, and was not subject to the demurrers interposed. It has been many times decided by the Supreme Oourt and this court that, where a statute creates a new offense and prescribes its constituents without reference to anything else,…