State v. Skelton

This is an appeal prosecuted by the state upon a question of law from a judgment of acquittal rendered in the county court of Pottawatomie county in sustaining a motion for acquittal, to which ruling the state at the time objected and excepted, and reserved a question of law to be made and presented for review on appeal to this court..

The information charges the defendants with keeping and maintaining a place in the city of Shawnee where whisky was kept with the intent to violate the prohibitory liquor laws. A jury.was waived, and the trial was had to the court. The evidence relied upon by…