Kinnanne v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court, Osceola District; W. J. Driver, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant was convicted upon an indictment charging him with running a dramshop and drinking saloon in the Osceola District of Mississippi County, without a license. It appears from the testimony that Robert Dixon bought either a pint or a quart of whiskey from appellant’s bar on a steamboat called the Harry Lee.
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Appeal from Mississippi Circuit Court, Osceola District; W. J. Driver, Judge; STATEMENT BY THE COURT. Appellant was convicted upon an indictment charging him with running a dramshop and drinking saloon in the Osceola District of Mississippi County, without a license. It appears from the testimony that Robert Dixon bought either a pint or a quart of whiskey from appellant’s bar on a steamboat called the Harry Lee. The purchase was made from the barroom on said boat where they had many kinds of whiskey and beer for sale. The purchaser got on the boat at the landing north of Osceola to go to…
1Opinion of the Court
Kirby, J.,
(after stating the facts). It is contended the testimony is insufficient to show the keeping of a dramshop without license, there being only a single sale proved and that the court erred in the giving and refusing of instructions relative to the boundary line between the States of Arkansas and Tennessee.
It is true that the testimony does not show but that one sale of whiskey was made, nor was there any attempt to prove others, but it is undisputed that this sale was made in a regularly equipped barroom upon a steamboat, where whiskey of many kinds and beer was kept and exposed for…
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