State v. Lyle

The appellant, a druggist, was convicted before a jury of having unlawfully sold intoxicating liquor. The state introduced as one of its exhibits the druggist’s register showing the sale of alcohol to the prosecuting witness. The book also contained a record of some thousand other sales occurring in the six months preceding the sale in question. The page of the register upon which appeared the sale to the prosecuting witness was the only page material to the case, but the entire book was actually physically in the possession of the jury, the one page on which appeared the prosecuting witness’…