State v. Davis
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Pleasants County. Miles Davis and others were found guilty of contempt, and bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
DbNT, Judge:
Miles Davis, J. J. Mahoney and Harry Cheeny complain of the judgment of the circuit court of Pleasants County rendered on the 21st day of December, 1899, adjudging them guilty of contempt of such court in violating an injunction thereof prohibiting them from selling intoxicating liquors at a certain house in St. Marys and sentencing them to six months’ imprisonment therefor. ,
The defendants insist that the evidence is wholly insufficient to justify the finding of the court. A careful examination of the evidence, which is too voluminous to set out at length, fully sustains their…
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