Hyde v. State

The affidavit upon which defendant was tried contained a single count, which charged only a sale of prohibited liquors.(1) The evidence for the state consisted of the testimony of two witnesses, Yeitch and Sorrell, both detectives émployed by the licensed liquor dealers, and who each testified that on Sunday, June 14, 1914, they went together and in company with one Bean to the defendant’s home, where the witness Yeitch, in the presence of said Sorrell and Bean, bought from defendant some beer and whisky, and that there were two persons at defendant’s home at the time, one Patton and one…