Kinnane v. State

delivered tlie opinion of the Court.

Plaintiff in error, Kinnane, was convicted on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor without a license in violation of statute, and has appealed and assigned errors.

Kinnane was keeper of a barroom on a steamboat, the Harry Lee, which plied the Mississippi river from Memphis northward to Ashport, in Lauderdale county.

There was proof tending to show that on one of its trips the boat made its regular landing at Ashport, and that a number of persons went aboard for the purpose, on their part, of making purchases of whisky, among them James Wilson, a witness…