State v. Speaks

Appellee was indicted by the grand jury of Yazoo county of a crime defined by Chapter 211, Laws of 1922, viz. of owning, controlling, and having in his possession the integral parts of a still. Appellant by demurrer raised the question as to whether the indictment charged any offense under said statute. The trial court sustained the demurrer and quashed the indictment, from which judgment the state prosecutes this appeal.

The indictment, leaving off the formal parts, is in this language :

“The grand jurors for the state of Mississippi, taken from the body of good and lawful men of Yazoo county,…