Hudson v. State

Citations

• 73 Miss. 784

Syllabus

<p>Criminal Law. Intoxicating Uqtiors. Amendment of affidavit on appeal. Code 1892, <j 1438.</p> <p>Where a defendant has been convicted before a magistrate of unlawful retailing', upon an affidavit charging a sale of liquor to certain persons named therein, though the names of such persons were unnecessary in the first instance, they became a part of the description of the offense charged, and it is error, on his appeal to the circuit court, to permit the state to strike out said names and prove a sale to a different person. Tyler v. State, 69 Miss., 395, cited</p>