Humphrey v. State

The defendant was convicted of a violation of the prohibition law, and appeals. The evidence offered by the state shows that the state’s witness Harr frequently purchased at the defendant’s drug store in Huntsville the essence of Jamaica ginger, put up in three-ounce bottles. On some occasions, the medicine was sold by the defendant, on others by his clerks; that the witness Harr sometimes used it as a medicine in his family, and on occasions-he diluted it with water and drank it, and on one or more occasions the witness became intoxicated from drinking the diluted essence.

The undisputed…