Earl v. State

Appellant was convicted under an indictment couched in the following language (omitting the caption and formal conclusion):

“The said defendant,’ "Will Earl, in the county, district and State aforesaid, on the 5th .day of December, A. D. 1921, did then and there unlawfully and feloniously have and keep in his possession a still for the purpose of using same for the production of distilled spirits, without registering the same with the proper United States officers as required by law.”

The record of the trial was not preserved by a bill of exceptions, and we can only review the record presented…