Fowler v. State

The appellant was convicted of violating the statute prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor in less quantities than a quart.

It appears from the evidence that he was prosecuted for the same charge before a justice of the peace; that the jury called to try him, after“ deliberating for several hours” as the record of the justice recites, and, as the record also states, “the court, being satisfied that the jury could not agree, discharged them and continued the case until the 18th day of October, 1882.” On the 17th day of that month the defendant requested and obtained a venire for another…