Turner v. District of Columbia

A jury convicted appellant of selling and keeping, for sale alcoholic beverages without a license. Code 1951, § 25-109 (a) (Supp. V). In connection with the same transaction a man named Barksdale was charged in a separate information and by consent the two men were tried together. Appellant challenges the sufficiency of the evidence.

The gist of the Government’s proof was that two police officers approached Barks-dale on a Sunday morning and asked if he knew where they could get some whisky. Barksdale agreed to obtain two half pints of whisky; one of the officers gave him two marked one-dollar…