State v. Abraham

Defendant appeals from a sentence for selling an intoxicating liquor called “Imitation Pear Extract,” for beverage purposes.

The only bill of exceptions presented to our consideration is one reserved to the overruling of a motion for a new trial, in which it is claimed by defendant that the evidence was not sufficient to convict him; that pear extract is a nonintoxicating beverage; that there was no analysis or proof that it actually contained the percentage of alcohol set forth in the answer to the bill of particulars; that the court took judicial cognizance of the intoxicating character of…