Wade v. State

DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

Appellant was convicted for violating the local option law, the punishment assessed being a fine of $30 and twenty days confinement in the county jail.

When the case was called for trial, the State moved to amend the indictment preferred by the grand jury by striking out the following portion of said indictment: “In the issues of said papers of the dates which read ‘April 1, 1904; April 8, 1904; April 15, 1904; April 22, 1904, and on the 1st day of May, 1904/ State moves that said part be stricken out of said indictment because it is surplusage and alleges matters…