Wilson v. City of Aberdeen

Appellant, Richard Wilson, was tried and convicted of the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor before the mayor of the City of Aberdeen, and ex officio justice of the peace of Monroe County, upon an affidavit of T. M. McDuffie, city marshal, which did not contain the name of the appellant as the defendant and did not charge that he “unlawfully” had in his possession intoxicating liquor. Neither did the affidavit aver that the offense charged was in violation of any ordinance of the City of Aberdeen, but merely charged the same to be “contrary to the form and statute in such cases made…