State v. Leonard

Defendant was prosecuted under an information which, after alleging that the city of Butler in Bates county, Missouri, was a city of more than 2500 inhabitants and the Local Option Law was in force therein, charged that “Walter Leonard, in said city of Butler aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully keep for, store for and deliver to one John Doe, who(se) true name is unknown, intoxicating liquor, to-wit, twenty-four pint(s) of whiskey without then and there having any authority so to do and against the peace and dignity of the State. ” .

A jury was waived and the case was tried by the court.…