McAlpin v. State

The grand jury of Jefferson county returned into the Jefferson Circuit Court a bill of indictment against John McAlpin, reading as follows:

“ The grand-jurors, impanneled, &c., upon their oath, present that John McAlpin, on, &c., at the county of Jefferson aforesaid, and continuously from that day until the day of the finding of this bill of indictment, had and possessed a house, ,a room, a shed, and a tenement, situate in said county; and that the said McAlpin there, during all the time aforesaid, did keep and suffer his said house, room, shed, and tenement, to be used and occupied for…