French v. State

Mb. Justice. SwiggaRt

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff in error, L. T. French, from a judgment rendered by the Circuit Court of Carroll County upon a conviction for possessing whisky. The jury fixed the fine of the plaintiff in error at $125, to which the trial judge added a sentence to the workhouse of thirty days.

Assignments of error of a technical nature are based upon the action of the trial judge in overruling a motion in arrest of judgment.

The indictment contained three counts, the first and third of which charged the plaintiff in error with…