State v. Murdock

Miller, Judge:

Defendant was indicted, tried and found guilty by the verdict of a jury, for unlawfully and feloniously owning, operating and having in his possession a mechanism, apparatus and device, commonly known as a moonshine still, and by the judgment of the court thereon was sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for a period of two years and to pay a fine of three hundred dollars.

On the present writ of error, awarded him to such judgment, he complains, first, that the court below should have sustained his motion to quash the indictment, on the ground that the one count therein…