Woodard v. State

BRICKEN, Presiding Judge.

The affidavit and warrant upon which this appellant was tried and convicted in the lower court are as follows:

“Before me, C. E. McNatt, Ex-Off. Clerk Law and Equity Court of said County, personally appeared J. C. Stone, who being duly sworn, doth depose and say that he has probable cause for believing and doth believe, that Clyde Woodard and Arthur Woodward, in selling coal to Vernon Bolton, made or gave a false or short weight, Contrary to Law, in said County, within twelve months before making this affidavit, against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.

“J.…