Jones v. State

delivered the opinion of the Court.”

This is an appeal from a conviction of transporting-more than a gallon of whiskey with the defendant’s punishment being fixed at a year and a day in the State penitentiary.

The principal assignments of error are based upon the contention that the search of the defendant’s automobile was unlawful. Other assignments are (1) that the trial judge erred in overruling the defendant’s plea in abatement to the indictment, the same being returned in open court without all of the grand jurors being present, and (2) for refusal of the trial judge to permit the…