People v. Fons

The defendant was convicted under an information charging him with unlawfully keeping-a place, to wit: a barroom in the Central House hotel at Spring Lake, Ottawa county, Michigan, where spirituous and intoxicating liquors, to wit: moonshine whisky, was unlawfully possessed, sold and furnished *605to others. The case is here on exceptions before sentence.

On the 10th day of July, 1922, one Ernest F. Hyde went to defendant’s place and purchased of him a drink and a small bottle of moonshine whisky. To this he made an affidavit which was sworn to before a notary public in the office of the…