Snider v. State

Simmons, Justice.

Snider was convicted, in two cases, for selling spirituous and intoxicating liquors to minors, and in both cases made motions for a new trial, which were overruled by the court, and he excepted. The proof showed that the defendant sold pure alcohol to two boys on different occasions. The main point argued before us was, that the judge in charging the jury, in both eases, instructed them that alcohol was a spirituous and intoxicating liquor, and that it was not necessary for the State to prove that it was intoxicating; or, in other words, that the court could take judicial…