Pickering v. State

The information in this case, filed in the county court of Garfield county on the 13th day of December, 1923, charges that in said county “on or about the 6th day of December, 1923, one H. C. Pickering did then and there unlawfully sell four and one-half pints of spiritous and intoxicating liquor, to wit, whisky, to one B. E. Slagle.” On the trial the jury returned a verdict finding the defendant guilty as charged in the information and fixing his punishment at a fine of $100 and confinement in the county jail for 60 days. From the judgment rendered on the verdict, he appeals.

The state relied…