Cloud v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Franklin Circuit Court. Hon. W. D. Jacoway, Circuit Judge. The defendant, by the verdict, was allowed the benefit of the doubt, as to the time the liquor was sold, and can not complain.
1Opinion of the CourtEnglish, C. J.
On. the eighth of November, 1879, D. M. Cloud was indicted in the circuit court of Franklin county, for selling liquor to a minor. The indictment charged that defendant, on the twentieth day of June, 1879, in the county of Franklin, unlawfully did sell one pint of ardent liquors, to one Bettis Alston, a minor, without the written consent or order of the parent or guardian of said minor, etc.
Defendant was tried at the May term, 1880, and found guilty by the jury, who assessed his punishment at a fine of twenty-five dollars. He moved for a new trial, on the grounds that the court erred in…
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