This is a writ of error to review a judgment of conviction under the National Prohibition Act (Comp. St. § 10138% et seq.). December 17, 1925, an information containing four counts was filed in the court below against the plaintiffs in error. The first count of the information charged the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor on or about October 30, 1925; the second count charged the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor on or about October 30, 1925; the third count charged the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor on or about October 31, 1925; and”the fourth count charged the maintenance of a common nuisance on or about October 31, 1925.

January 8, 1926, an indictment containing ten counts was returned in the same court against the same parties. The first count of the indictment charged the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor on or about November 20, 1925; the second count charged the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor on or about November 21, 1925; the third count charged the'unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor on or about November 21, 1925; the fourth count charged the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor on or about November 27,1925; the fifth count charged the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor on or about November 27, 1925; the sixth count charged the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor on or about November 29, 1925; the seventh count charged the unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor on or about November 29, 1925; the eighth count charged the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor on or about December 2, 1925; the ninth count charged the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor on or about December 15, 1925; and the tenth count charged the maintenance of a common nuisance on or about December 15,1925, and a prior conviction for unlawful possession of intoxicating liquor and for maintaining a common nuisance.

January 11, 1926, after the filing of the information and the return of the indictment, the plaintiffs in error were placed on trial under and by virtue of the information. Upon the trial of the information, the jury returned a verdict of not guilty as to all four counts. Thereafter, and before the trial under the indictment, the plaintiffs in error interposed a plea of former jeopardy. This-plea was sustained as to the nuisance count,, but overruled as to the others, and upon the trial under the indictment the plaintiffs in error were convicted on certain counts and acquitted on others. The sufficiency of the plea of former jeopardy is the only question presented for our consideration on the present writ of error.

Briefly stated, the plaintiffs in error contend that under the information they could have been convicted of the crime of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor, and of the crime of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor, committed at any time within three years prior to the filing of the information, and therefore they were once in jeopardy for all such crimes, notwithstanding there could have been but one conviction at most under each count of the information, and notwithstanding that plaintiffs in error were not in fact tried under the information for any of the offenses of which they were later convicted under the indictment. A mere statement of this broad proposition carries with it its own condemnation.

. To support a plea of former jeopardy, both prosecutions must be for the same offense in law and in fact. “If this were not so, no one could be indicted and tried for carrying concealed weapons more than once in two years, though he should violate the law in that respeet every day of that period; or, if acquitted on one single charge of retailing without license, the defendant would be law-proof for the period of two years prior to finding that bill as to all other charges of that nature. The same would be true as to-' other'offenses.” State v. White, 146 N. C. 608 , 60 S. E. 505 . In that case the first indictment charged the erime of carrying concealed "weapons on December 24, 1907; the. second, the" carrying of concealed weapons-on January 5, 1908; and it was held that an acquittal on the first indictment was no-bar to a prosecution on the second.

In Chesapeake & O. R. Co. v. Commonwealth, 88 Ky. 368 , 11 S. W. 87 , two indictments were returned at the same term against, a railway company, charging the maintenance of a common nuisance by obstructing a turnpike road with its cars on the same date. An acquittal on one of the indictments was-pleaded in bar of a prosecution on the other,, and, in answer to the contention here made, the court said:

A qualification to this general rule was later well expressed in the same opinion where the court added:

In this case it was conceded that the government neither proved nor attempted to .prove, under the information, the commission of either of the crimes of which the plaintiffs in error stand convicted under the indictment.

It' is lastly contended that an acquittal of the charge of maintaining a common nuisance was also an acquittal of the included crimes of unlawfully possessing intoxicating liquor and unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor. But possession and sale are not included crimes. It has been so often determined by this and other courts that the possession, or sale of intoxicating liquor, and the maintaining of a common nuisance, are separate and distinct crimes, and that a party may be convicted of possession or sale though acquitted of,the nuisance charge, that the question is no longer an open one. The mere possession of intoxicating liquor or the mere sale of intoxicating liquor does not of itself constitute a common nuisance. There are elements in the latter crime not found in the former, and therefore an acquittal of the ehaige of maintaining a common nuisance is not an acquittal of the charge of unlawful possession or unlawful sale. Lee Choy v. United States (C. C. A.) 293 F. 582 .

The judgment is affirmed.