State v. . Little

The charge against the defendant was that he had sold one quart of whiskey to W. E. Reynolds, and the principal exceptions were taken to the remarks of the judge, in his charge, in regard to the latter, who was the State’s chief witness.

1. We do not see any merit in the exceptions. When the judge referred to the expression that “Birds of a feather will flock together,” and “that Reynolds, having been convicted of unlawful sales of whiskey before this trial, would be likely to know who sells liquor in violation of the law,” he was merely stating what the contention of the State was, in its own…