Huff v. State

E. F. Huff prosecutes this appeal to reverse a judgment of conviction against him for violating the provisions of § 2653 of Crawford & Moses’ Digest, which defines what is dealing in futures and prescribes the penalty for a violation of the act.

The first assignment of error is that the court erred in not sustaining a demurrer to the indictment. The body of the indictment reads as follows: “The grand jury of Faulkner County, in the name and by the authority of the State of Arkansas, accuse E. F. Huff of the crime of misdemeanor, committed as follows, to-wit: The said E. F. Huff, in the county…