Quillen v. State

Citations

• 106 Miss. 831
• 64 So. 736

Syllabus

<p>1. CRIMINAL Law. Venue. Proof. Appeal. Jurisdictional facts. Code 1906, section 4936.</p> <p>Where on the trial of an indictment charging defendant with the sale of intoxicating liquors in a certain county, the evidence failed to show any sale in such county, the ease on appeal will be reversed for failure to prove venue.</p> <p>2. Code 1906, Section 4936. Appeal. Jurisdictional facts. Venue.</p> <p>Under Code 1906, section 4936, forbidding the reversal in a criminal case, except for errors in the court below, jurisdictional in their character, unless such, errors were made ground of special exception in the trial court, the failure to prove venue was jurisdictional, and might he assigned on appeal, although no exception had been tafeen in the court below.</p>