Coulson v. State

This is a writ of error prosecuted to a judgment of conviction for violation of the State prohibition laws against the sale, manufacture or possession of intoxicating liquors, second offense. See Section 7630 C. G.. L„ 5486 R. G. S.

The Attorney General concedes that the judgment of conviction cannot stand because the verdict of the jury is fatally defective in that it did not expressly determine separately the historical fact of the plaintiff in error’s first conviction, as alleged in the Circuit Court indictment.

When a person is indicted and tried for a violation of the intoxicating liquor…