State v. Needham

Defendant was convicted on an information charging a violation of section 7227, Revised Statutes 1909, in that he “did.then and' there unlawfully and wilfully keep and store for and did then and there deliver to another person, to-wit,' Turquil McNeill, certain intoxicating liquors, to-wit, one pint of whiskey,” etc., in Dent county which had adopted the Local Option Law.

Defendant filed a plea in abatement alleging that he had been legally indicted, tried and acquitted in the circuit court of said county on a charge of selling intoxicating liquors to the same witness mentioned in the…