Dorsey v. State

The appellant was tried and convicted in the circuit court on the charge of selling intoxicating liquor, sentenced to pay a fine, of five hundred dollars and to serve a term of ninety days in jail, from which judgment he appeals here.

The record shows that the state failed to prove the venue as laid in the affidavit, the prosecution having been begun in the justice of the peace court, the affidavit al leging that the offense was committed in district No. 1 of Leake county. None of the witnesses who testified in the case testified that the offense occurred in the state of Mississippi.

We have…