Holt v. State

Stephen A. Holt was prosecuted in the lower court under section 20, chapter 50, Compiled Statutes, for keeping intoxicating liquors for sale without a license so to do. From a judgment of conviction and sentence he brings error.

The first contention of counsel for the accused is that the information fails to charge a crime. It avers: “That Stephen A. Holt, late of the county aforesaid, did on the 9th day of July, in the year of our Lord 1900, in said county, keep for sale and with intent to sell and vend and did then and there sell and keep for sale intoxicating liquors, consisting of whiskey,…