State v. Grant

This cause is here upon appeal by defendant from a judgment of conviction in the Dunklin county circuit court upon an indictment charging the defendant with a violation of what is commonly known as the Local Option law, which had been adopted in that county. The sufficiency of the indictment is nowhere *365challenged and there is no reason for reproducing it here.

On the 31st day of May, 1904, the defendant was pnt upon his trial before a jury for the commission of the offense charged. The evidence was heard, the court instructed the jury and the causes, which had been consolidated, were submitted…