Edwards v. City of Gulfport

Erom the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. William H. Hardy, Judge. Edwards, appellant, was convicted in the court below of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquors and was sentenced to pay a fine and suffer imprisonment for thirty days; and appealed to the supreme court. Appellant, as an attraction to his pool-room business in Gulf-port, habitually sold to his customers and to the public generally different beverages among which was a concoction known and labeled as “Pabst’s Mead.” A policeman of the city purchased from appellant at his place of business two bottles of the concoction,…