People v. McCall

The respondent was charged with violating the local-option law in force in Kalkaska county by giving and furnishing to one David Yipond a quantity of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, to wit, whisky, on the 25th day of June, 1909, at the village of Kalkaska, Mich. The court refused to take the case from the jury, as requested by the respondent. The jury returned a verdict of guilty.

The important assignments of error are:(1) Did the court err in refusing to direct a verdict of not guilty at the close of the proof on the part of the people when the people rested their case, as requested by…