Webb v. Commonwealth

The accused was indicted under section 17 of the prohibition act (Acts 1918, ch. 388) for unlawfully storing ardent spirits in an out-building which was not his bona fide home; was convicted, and is here as a matter of right assigning several errors.

His first assignment is that the court erred in overruling his demurrer to the indictment. No authority is cited in support of this assignment, and it is sufficient to say that it charges the unlawful storing and possession of ardent spirits in the language of the stattute, in a place clearly prohibited by law, and that it is sufficient. Pettus v.…