State v. Sawyer
Supreme Court of Vermont
Information charging the respondent with keeping intoxicating liquor, with intent to sell the same in violation of law. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the June term, 1894, Addison county, Start, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty. Judgment on verdict and sentence imposed. The respondent excepts and execution stayed.
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Information charging the respondent with keeping intoxicating liquor, with intent to sell the same in violation of law. Plea, not guilty. Trial by jury at the June term, 1894, Addison county, Start, J., presiding. Verdict, guilty. Judgment on verdict and sentence imposed. The respondent excepts and execution stayed. In inference to the admission of testimony the exceptions stated: “The state, in order to show whether the liquorcand contents of the bottles so found was intoxicating, improved as a witness said town liquor agent,1who was asked the following question : Question — Did Mr. Cobb,…
1Opinion of the CourtThompson, J.
I. No exception was taken to the admission of the question objected to by 'the respondent, and therefore the ruling of the county court cannot be passed upon by this court.
II. The information charged the respondent with keeping and possessing intoxicating liquor with intent to sell and furnish the same in violation of law, and also alleged his prior conviction for selling and furnishing intoxicating liquor contrary to law. On trial, the record of such prior conviction was admitted in evidence to enhance the sentence, *241against the respondent’s exception. The respondent was found guilty by the…
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