Shields v. State

The appellant was indicted and convicted for selling intoxicating liquor to be drank on his premises, without license. The case was tried by a jury. The overruling of the appellant’s motion for a new trial, to which an exception was taken, is assigned for error.

Each of the persons called as jurors, in answer under oath as to his competency, testified that he did not believe a moral man would engage in the whiskey traffic, and that he would not believe the testimony of a witness whom he believed to be immoral on account of being engaged in that business, as readily as he would the evidence of…