Hays v. State

This is an appeal by Bill Hays from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Simpson County finding him guilty of the unlawful sale of beer.

*810He assigns and argues that the indictment is fatally defective (1) for failure to charge that the county had determined that the sale of beer, of an alcoholic content of not more than four per cent by weight, should be excluded from Simpson County, and (2) for failure to charge that the board of supervisors entered an order prohibiting the sale thereof, and (3) it charges no crime known to the law.

Chapter 5, Yol. 7, Code of 1942, contains the statutes with…