State v. Foster

OPINION OP THE COURT

PARKER, J.

Appellant was tried and convicted of the illegal sale- of liquor. The prosecution fixed the date of the sale of the liquor as April 23d. The appellant, besides denying the fact, relied upon an alibi which was thoroughly established if the testimony was to be believed. The ability of the witnesses for appellant to fix the date depended upon the correctness of the date upon a bill for some sawmill supplies issued by a hardware merchant who sold the goods. The prosecution, in rebuttal, attacked the date on the memorandum, and put on two witnesses to show that it had…