State v. Gray

*487The opinion of the court was delivered by

Benson, J.:

On a trial for violating the prohibitory liquor law the defendant requested an instruction to the effect that the fact that witnesses had been paid for procuring evidence might be taken into consideration in weighing their testimony. Two of the wit-, nesses for the state were connected with the State Temperance Union and had visited the defendant’s place to procure' evidence. There was evidence strongly corroborative of that given by these witnesses to prove that such liquors were kept, sold and drunk upon the premises in question at the…