State v. Donahue

It is not necessary, in an indictment for maintaining a place for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, to negative defendant’s right to sell under the 1. place of meat. mulct law, nor to specify in what respect the mulct law has been violated by defendant in conducting his saloon. Code, section 2424. Ritchie v. Zalesky, 98 Iowa, 589; State v. Van Vliet, 92 Iowa, 476; State v. Pressman, 103 Iowa, 452; Bartel v. Hobson, 107 Iowa, 647. It is for the defendant in the first instance to introduce evidence of compliance with the conditions of the law. It was admitted by the prosecution that…