Bolton v. State

We have several times said, and we repeat it here, that the same rules of law governing the admission of other testimony in other criminal cases are alike applicable to cases involving violations of the prohibition statutes. Defendants should not be convicted upon evidence which does not connect them with the crime charged, and wherever this is done this court does not hesitate to so hold. But where there is legal evidence from which the jury can by fair inference find the defendant guilty, this court has no right to disturb the verdict. Whether there is such evidence is a question of law;…