State v. Poundstone

Information filed before a justice of peace, charging the defendant with selling liquor on Sunday as a dramshop keeper. Defendant convicted and appealed to the circuit court where he was again convicted and has appealed to this court.

We are not favored with a brief by either appellant or respondent in this case, but have carefully read this long record with a view to ascertain whether or not the defendant was accorded a fair trial, and to find what, if any, error is charged to have been committed against him. We find,

1. Defendant offered on the trial to prove that one George D. Thornton, had…