State v. Nichols

The defendant-appellant was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court of Stoddard County (on change of venue) on a charge of transporting moonshine in Dunklin County, and his punish-^ v ment assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary.,/As we have concluded the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded we shall discuss only two of the many assignments of error: one challenging the sufficiency of the State’s evidence; and the other complaining of the circuit court’s action in overruling his plea in abatement, which assailed its jurisdiction.

The facts may be summarized as…