State v. Morris

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

Courtney Morris was prosecuted upon four counts of an information for having intoxicating liquors in his possession and for sales of the same, and was convicted on the first and second counts, one for having in possession and the other for a sale. In his appeal he assigns as error the overruling of a motion to quash the information on the ground that it did not charge a public offense.

This case belongs to a class that appears here again and again, and the court is asked, it might be said, to thresh over old straw, or harp on the same…