Wells v. State

RICE, Judge.

The officers testified that they detected appellant in the act of selling whiskey to a person on the streets of Sheffield, Alabama, which we know to be, at the time this prosecution arose, located in a “wet county” under the provisions of the Alabama Beverage Control Act. General and Local Acts of Alabama, Extra Session 1936-37, page 40. They arrested him then and there; and on the following day one of them made an affidavit under the terms of Code 1940 Tit. 13, Sec. 327, upon which a warrant for appellant’s arrest was issued —though he was then “under bond.”

Appellant was duly put…