People v. Monroe

THE COURT.

The defendant was found guilty of selling intoxicating liquor to one Sam Osborn, an Indian, and fined in the sum of five hundred dollars, with the alternative of imprisonment in the county jail one day for each two dollars thereof, and appeals from the judgment and from an order denying a new trial.

The defendant kept a saloon and small store at Dunlap. Dave Works, a half-breed Indian, to whom intoxicating liquors might lawfully be sold, had been accused by the defendant of abusing his privilege by buying liquor and giving or selling it to the Indians, and for that reason, as he…