Partin v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

The appellant was tried and convicted in the police court of Pineville under a warrant' charging him with the offense of “unlawfully selling to Tom Brackett intoxicating liquor, to-wit: Jamaica ginger, knowing -the same to be used for beverage purposes, and under circumstances whereby he should have known would be so used.” From the judgment of the police court he prosecuted an appeal to the circuit court and at his trial there the jury found him guilty and fixed his punishment at a fine of $300.00 and confinement in the county jail for sixty days.

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