State v. Messmer

*202The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The defendant appeals from a conviction of having intoxicating liquor in his possession.

1. It is argued that there was “error of the court in refusing to admit competent evidence offered by defendant on objection of plaintiff.” The evidence which the defendant desired to introduce was that of a physician who, if he had been permitted, would have testified that in 1914 and in 1920 he treated Mrs. Messmer, the wife of the defendant, for acute heart trouble, and then administered whisky to her for that trouble. The evidence, if admitted,…