State v. Fleming
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Cerro Gordo District Court. — Hon. John 0» Sheewin, Judge. The defendant was convicted of the crime of nuisance, alleged to have been committed by maintaining a place in which he kept for sale and sold intoxicating liquors in violation of law. From a judgment requiring him to pay a fine of five hundred dollars, an attorney’s fee of twenty-five dollars, and costs, he appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
1. Intoxicating liquors: nuisance: reputation: evidence. I. On the trial of the cause the state was permitted to offer evidence which tended to prove that the defendant was reputed to sell intoxicating liquors in violation of law; that his dwelling house, in which the crime of which he was accused is *296alleged 'to have been committed, had the reputation of being a place where such liquors were sold; and that men who frequented the place were reported to be of a drinking class. Section 1, chapter 66, of Acts of the Twenty-first General Assembly makes evidence of the general reputation of the…
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