Dossett v. State

Appellant (defendant in the court below) was indicted for manufacturing prohibited liquors in Mobile county, to which charge he pleaded not guilty, and set up by special plea that he had already been convicted in the federal court of Mississippi for the same offense now charged; The' state’s demurrer to this special plea was sustained, and the ease was tried on the plea of not guilty.

A conviction for the same offense in the federal court of Mississippi was no bar to a prosecution in Alabama. The special plea was no answer to the indictment, and the state’s demurrer was properly sustained.…