State v. Driscoll

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

John Driscoll was charged with five violations of the intoxicating-liquor law and convicted upon a count for the unlawful transportation of intoxicating liquors.

In his appeal he assigns as error the refusal of the court to give the following requested instruction:

“The juiy are instructed that if they believe from the evidence that the witness Peterson, while acting as an officer of the law, induced the plaintiff to commit the crime charged, so that said witness was the moving cause of the commission of said crime, then you cannot…