Case Name: Voss v. State
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1926-12-13
Citations: 144 Miss. 825
Docket Number: No. 25865
Parties: Voss v. State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 144
Pages: 825–828

Head Matter:
Voss v. State.
(Division A.
Dec. 13, 1926.)
[110 So. 670.
No. 25865.]
II. F. Case, for appellant.
W. A. Scott, Special Agent, for the state.
II. F. Case, in reply, for appellant.
Corpus Juris-Cyc. References: Criminal Law, 16 C. X, p. 605, n. 17; 17 C. X, p. 320, n. 36.

Opinion:
Sm:ith, C. J.,
delivered the opinion of the court.
This is an appeal from a conviction for the sale of intoxicating liquor. After proving one sale of intoxicating liquor, the state, over the objection of the appellant, was permitted to prové another and distinct sale of such liquor.
At the close of the evidence, the appellant moved the court to compel the state to elect on which of the sales it would ask a conviction, and it elected to ask for a conviction on the sale first proven.
The indictment alleges that the appellant sold intoxicating liquor, "on the — day of-, A. D., 1925," and consequently does not bring the case within the provisions of section 1762, Code of 1906 (section 2098, Hemingway's Code). Evidence of more than one sale, therefore, should not have, been admitted, and the error in so doing was not cured by the election of the state of one of the sales.
Reversed and remanded.