People v. Thompson

Defendant was convicted of violating the prohibition law and reviews such conviction on exceptions before sentence. The date of the commission of the offense was alleged in the information under a videlicet to be the 12th day of August, 1921. The people’s testimony, while not definitely fixing that date, approximated it. The defense was an alibi. The testimony introduced on behalf of defendant tended to show that both before and after that date he was at the residence of his father in Muskegon county, some distance away, and that on the specific date he attended an auction sale over in Ottawa…