State v. Findley
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Davis District Court. The indictment charged “that the defendant, at Davis county, Iowa, on the first day of February, 1875, did then and there keep, use, and control a certain house in which he then and there unlawfully kept for sale, and did then and there unlawfully sell, intoxicating liquors.” There was a jury trial, verdict of guilty and judgment, from which defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtSeevers, J.
i criminal intóxfoatiñg liquors. The only evidence in relation to a sale of intoxicating liquors by defendant, or of his keeping such liquors f°r sa^e> ^ie testimony of one Mendenhall, and *s as follows: “ I am selling drugs for defendant pn Bloomfield, Davis county, Iowa, and have been since February 15, 1875, at his store; I sold at that store a half-pint of whiskey with cinchona in it to T. O. Walker; I never sold any other kind of liquor there nor at any other time than that; -it was before February 23, 1875; nor I never saw any other liquor, of any kind, sold there by anybody else at any…
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