Sangfield v. State

Wade, O. J.

The indictment charged the defendant with the offense of selling intoxicating liquors, and also with keeping the same at her place of business. At the trial the State elected to proceed only upon the count charging the sale of intoxicating liquors, and the jury found the defendant guilty. A motion for a new trial was made upon the general grounds only; and it is insisted that the evidence against the accused, which was altogether circumstantial, was not sufficient to establish her guilt to the exclusion of every other reasonable hypothesis. The indictment was preferred at the April…