State v. Fox

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mason, J.:

George Fox was charged in three counts with the sale of liquor, its possession, and the maintaining of a nusiance in a garage owned by him. He was convicted on the first two counts and acquitted on the-third. He appeals.

Complaint is made of two instructions concerning reasonable doubt. One of them, among other things, said a doubt, to authorize an acquittal, should be substantial. The argument is that “substantial” sometimes means strong, stout or solid. The context shows that it was used as an antonym of unsubstantial — it was contrasted…