State v. Sam

The appellee, J. W. Sam, was prosecuted in the justice of the peace court for violating section 942, Hemingway’s Code of 1927 (chapter 172, Laws of 1924). He was convicted in this court, and appealed to the circuit court of Lawrence county, where a demurrer to the affidavit was interposed and sustained by the circuit court, and the defendant discharged. The affidavit reads as follows:

“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned authority in and for- said county and state, the within named H. E. Graves, who, being by me first duly sworn, says on oath that J. W!. Sam, in district No. 1 of…