State v. Girod

Maxweld, Judge:

The defendant was tried and convicted in the criminal court of Marion county on an indictment charging him with unlawfully and feloniously having in his possession a quantity of moonshine liquor. The statute, section 3 of Chapter 32A of the Code, makes the first offense under the act a misdemeanor, and the second offense a felony. The indictment in the present case alleges a former indictment and conviction, and a subsequent offense.

The officers with a search warrant entered defendant’s residence, one room of which was used as a grocery store, and found in a pantry, behind a…