Jordan v. State

Phillip Jordan, referred to herein as the defendant, was convicted by the jury, his punishment being fixed at one year and a day in -the penitentiary, upon an indictment which charged him with transporting on a certain day more than one gallon of whisky “from a certain point in the County of Giles, State of Tennessee, to another point in the County of Giles, State of Tennessee, against the peace and dignity of the State.”

Error is assigned upon the failure of the trial court to quash the indictment because violative of article 1 section 9, of the Constitution, which provides that in all…