State v. Carduff

Haymond, Judge:

At the November Term, 1953, of the Criminal Court of Harrison County, the defendant John Joseph Carduff was indicted for a misdemeanor by the grand jury of the county attending that court. The indictment charged the defendant with the unlawful sale of a designated quantity of whisky in that county, in October 1953, to H. E. Parks, without a state license and without authorization under the Liquor Control Act to make such sale. The defendant filed a plea in abatement by which he challenged the validity of the indictment on the ground that the grand jury which returned it was not…