State v. Kahner

Peterson, Justice.

The defendant and one Jacob Garon were charged in an indictment with having attempted on October 14, 1942, “to prevent or dissuade” one Eugene Goulet, who had been duly subpoenaed as a witness for the state, from appearing and giving testimony on October 22, 1942, before the municipal court of the city of Minneapolis upon the trial of a charge against the Minnesota Tavern Corporation, Inc. of having violated a city ordinance by selling to Goulet, a minor, three glasses of nonintoxicating malt liquor (3.2 beer) in its tavern known as the Persian Palms.

The indictment alleged…