State v. Rand

Heard on defendants’ motion to quash the indictment.

The indictment charges that the defendants “unlawfully and fraudulently did combine, confederate, conspire and agree together by divers unlawful means, unlawfully and designedly to secrete and hide in their control and possession certain large quantities of intoxicating liquors containing more than one-half of one per centum of ethelic alcohol by volume, fit for beverage purposes,” etc.

Defendants moved to quash the indictment on several grounds, chiefly “because there is no crime known to the law as secreting and hiding intoxicating liquors…