Guy v. State

The defendant was indicted for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors contrary to the Local Option Law of Harford County. He was tried before a jury, found guilty and sentenced to fine and imprisonment.

The State offered testimony by a competent witness tending to prove that during the month of March—some three or four months before the trial—the witness purchased whiskey from the defendant. The State then rested. In order to meet the case thus made, the defendant went upon the stand, of his own motion, and testified in his own behalf, to the effect that he did not sell any whiskey as…