State v. Moore

This is an appeal from a judgment convicting the defendant of the crime of selling intoxicating liquor to a minor entered in the district court of the ninth judicial district upon a jury verdict.

The alleged offense occurred in the defendant’s tavern in Pendroy, Montana, on September 7, 1959, when the defendant allegedly sold vodka to Terry Nielson, who was seventeen years of age at that time. The specific facts will be set out in the remainder of the decision as they become pertinent to the questions of law involved.

Defendant’s seven specifications of error concerned three main objections.…