Patterson v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from circuit court of Simpson county.- Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Hulon Patterson was convicted of unlawful making and distilling intoxicating liquors, and he appeals. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted and sentenced under section 18, chapter 189, Laws 1918, which provided in part, that any person . . . who shall make or distill . . . intoxicating liquor shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished, etc.
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Appeal from circuit court of Simpson county.- Hon. W. H. Hughes, Judge. Hulon Patterson was convicted of unlawful making and distilling intoxicating liquors, and he appeals. The appellant was indicted, tried and convicted and sentenced under section 18, chapter 189, Laws 1918, which provided in part, that any person . . . who shall make or distill . . . intoxicating liquor shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction shall be punished, etc. The indictment charges that “Hulon Patterson did then and there unlawfully make and distill intoxicating liquor,” etc. Objection was not made to the…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The appellant was convicted in the court below on an indictment charging that he “did then and there unlawfully make and distill intoxicating liquors,” etc., and one of the assignments of error is that the indictment is fatally defective for the reason that it omits to charge that the liquor was made and distilled “feloniously.”
Section 18, chapter 189, Laws of 1918, provides that— “Any person . . . who shall . • . . make, or distill . . . intoxicating liquors . . . shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary,” etc.
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