Price v. State

SMITH, Justice:

Paul Price was convicted in the Circuit Court of Lee County on a charge of possessing whisky for the purpose of sale. He was sentenced to pay a fine and to a term of imprisonment. He appeals from that conviction and sentence.

The indictment returned against appellant by the Lee County grand jury charged that, on May 24, 1968, he “did violate House Bill 112 of the laws of the State of Mississippi Section 18 paragraph (a) to wit; by unlawfully and wilfully storing alcoholic beverages, to wit 26 bottles of bourbon, 4 bottles of Segram [sic] gin without authority of law.”

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