State v. Spano

WALKER, J.-

In a proceeding by indictment in the Circuit Court of Jackson County the defendant was charged with the selling and giving away of hootch, moonshine and corn whiskey. Upon a trial he was found guilty and his punishment assessed at two years’ imprisonment in the penitentiary. From this judgment he appeals.

The appellant was employed in a shoe shop in Kansas City. A boy about fifteen years of age, named William Fly, while waiting in the shoe shop for a street car, heard the defendant say to a person with whom he was conversing, that he could sell pure- corn whiskey by the gallon or in…