Price v. City of Gulfport
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. Thomas H. Barrett, Judge. Price, appellant, was conyicted in tbe municipal court of Gulf-port of keeping intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell them, in. violation of an ordinance of the city. He appealed to the circuit court, was there tried de novo, was again convicted and appealed to the supreme court.
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Prom the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. Thomas H. Barrett, Judge. Price, appellant, was conyicted in tbe municipal court of Gulf-port of keeping intoxicating liquors, with intent unlawfully to sell them, in. violation of an ordinance of the city. He appealed to the circuit court, was there tried de novo, was again convicted and appealed to the supreme court. The ordinance was the same as Laws 1908, eh. 114, sec. 1797. The facts upon which •the case was decided are stated in the opinion of the court. The court erred in admitting in evidence the whiskey seized in the depot by the…
1Opinion of the Court
McLain, C.
Appellant was- convicted by the police justice of thd city of Gulfport upon affidavit charging him with-unlawfully keeping for sale intoxicating liquors. He appealed the case to the circuit court of Harrison county, and was convicted and sentenced, and from that judgment he prosecutes this appeal.
Appellant’s chief assignment of error is that the evidence upon. *481which, he was convicted was not competent testimony to' submit to the jury, and that the evidence upon the whole was not sufficient to sustain the verdict. On November 23, 1909, .appellant was running a poolroom in the city of…
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