Treadwell v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Marengo Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John T. Lackland. From a conviction for violating the prohibition law, Jasper Treadwell appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. The solicitor in his argument said: “The proof in this case tends to show that whisky is being dispensed from the depot and in the shadow of your county capítol.” The court charged the jury orally as follows: “That this party went to the shop and delivered it as porter.
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Appeal from Marengo Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. John T. Lackland. From a conviction for violating the prohibition law, Jasper Treadwell appeals. The facts sufficiently appear in the opinion of the court. The solicitor in his argument said: “The proof in this case tends to show that whisky is being dispensed from the depot and in the shadow of your county capítol.” The court charged the jury orally as follows: “That this party went to the shop and delivered it as porter. He had a right to do that; but when the box was open, if he took whisky out and carried it to Mr. Canterbury, that…
1Opinion of the CourtDowdell, C. J.
The indictment contains two counts. Under the second count, which charges that *98tbe defendant “kept for sale spirituous, vinous or malt liquors,” etc., the state was not restricted to proof of one act of selling as tending to support this charge, and hence could not he compelled to an election. Upon .the cross-examination by the solicitor of the defendant’s witness, Carter, who testified to sending three orders only through the express office for liquor for the defendant, as testing the recollection of the witness and to which the court expressly limited the inquiry, no reversible error was…
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