State v. Shortwell

The respondent pleaded not guilty to a liquor nuisance indictment (R. S., Chap. 23, Sec. 1), found against him in Lincoln county, at the Supreme Judicial Court in October 1926, and was put upon his trial. The jury convicted him. He has exceptions to the admission of evidence of a former conviction, to the refusal to direct a verdict in his favor, and to instructions.

As bearing on the question, whether certain cider were had by the respondent with intent to sell it for tippling purposes, or as a beverage, the State was permitted against objection to show that, eleven months before, in…