Morris v. State

MORROW, Presiding Judge.

The conviction is for keeping a building for the purpose of selling intoxicating liquor; punishment fixed at confinement in the penitentiary for a period of one year.

Provision is made in Article 482 of the P. 0., for the substitution of a lost indictment. On the present record, it appears that on the 3rd day of November, 1922, the district attorney presented to the court a motion which contained an averment to the effect that on the 16th day of September, 1922, there had been legally presented against M. Morris, in cause No. 6332, an indictment charging him with the…