Woods v. People

Woods was charged in an information with “wilfully, knowingly and unlawfully” selling at retail, serving and distributing “a quantity of malt liquor as defined by the Colorado Revised Statutes, 1953, 75-2-4, namely twenty-four bottles of Coors beer to Richard Earl Erickson and to diverse other persons, to the complainant herein unknown, without being licensed so to do by the State of Colorado in violation of C.R.S. 1953 75-2-3 . . .” Section 75-2-4 has to do with malt liquor of more than 3.2% alcohol by weight. To the charge, Woods pled not guilty.

At the trial, there was testimony of a…