State v. Skipworth

SADLER, Justice.

The appellant, defendant below, was charged in an information filed against him by the district attorney of the Ninth Judicial District within and for Curry County of possessing alcoholic liquor for sale without a license so to do. Upon the trial, he was convicted and prosecutes this appeal from the sentence imposed upon him by the court.

The evidence disclosed that in a local option election in 1939 Curry County voted against the sale of intoxicating liquors in the county from that date forward. Hence, at the time of the alleged offense, Curry County was “dry” territory. At…