State v. Miller

Ritz, President:

Defendant was indicted in the circuit court of Roane county upon the charge that he did unlawfully sell, give, offer, expose, keep and store for sale and gift, liquors. A demurrer to the indictment was overruled, and the questions arising thereon certified to this court.

The indictment is in the form prescribed by section three of chapter 108 of the Acts of 1919. The ground of the demurrér is that the indictment does not necessarily charge an offense, for the reason that the word “liquors” which the defendant is charged with having dealt in, is too uncertain to make him guilty…