State v. Cahalan

Numerous assignments of error are made by the appellant, but the primary propositions presented in argument are three in number. First, that the evidence is insufficient to support a verdict of guilty. Second, that the court erred-in failing to compel the State to elect as to the locus in which the alleged liquor nuisance was maintained. Third, that the court erred in failing to instruct the jury that a brush or weed patch is not a place, within the definition of the law, wherein a liquor nuisance may be maintained.

I. The trial court instructed the jury, in substance, in conformity to the…