Lejuste v. State

The appellant was charged by affidavit with unlawfully and feloniously having in his possession and under his control a still and distilling apparatus for the manufacture of intoxicating liquor. Said criminal offense for which he was prosecuted is defined in the Acts of 1923, ch. 33, §1. He was found guilty by a jury and the court pronounced judgment of imprisonment.

The first error assigned is that the court erred in overruling appellant’s motion to quash the affidavit. The grounds for the motion were that the facts stated in the affidavit did not constitute a public offense, and that the…