Cage v. State

Citations

• 105 Miss. 326
• 62 So. 358

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Evidence. Other offenses. Code 1906, section 1762.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, section 1762 providing that “on the trial of all prosecutions for the violation of law by the sale or giving away of liquors, bitters or drinks, the state shall not be confined to the proof of a single violation, but may give in evidence any one or more offenses of the same character committed anterior to the day laid in the indictment or in the affidavit and not barred by the statute of limitations,” etc. In order that evidence may be given of more than one offense occurring anterior to the date laid, in the indictment, the date must be specifically laid in the indictment, it not being sufficient to merely aver that the offense was committed some time during a named year.</p>