State v. Rafter

The information charges the defendant with a violation of the dramshop law. He was convicted both before the justice of the peace and in the circuit court. The evidence for the state tended to prove a sale of two quarts of beer to one William Stewart in June, 1893, and that the sales were made by'the defendant at Wombles’ drug store in the town of Troy, in Lincoln county. It was undisputed that Wombles was a licensed druggist, that he owned the drug store, and that the defendant was conducting it for him. It appeared from the certificate of the State Board of Pharmacy, which the defendant…