Brewer v. State

Appellant was convicted, regularly, on a trial in the law and equity court of Franklin county on February S, 1928, of the offense of violating the prohibition laws by selling whisky.

The minute entry, or judgment entry, recorded on his trial, is in words and figures (omitting parts not important to the question raised by this appeal) as follows:

“Comes the Solicitor who prosecutes for the State, and also comes the defendant in his own proper person and by his attorney, and the defendant being arraigned by having the indictment read to him, for his plea thereto, says he is not guilty. The…