Gostorf v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. J. "W. Martin, Circuit Judge. ■STATEMENT. This was an indictment of the appellant for selling, without license, compounds of ardent liquor known as Home Bitters and Home Sanative Cordial. Upon trial before the court, Brown, a witness for the State, testified that he had purchased from the appellant, in Pulaski County, a bottle of each of the compounds mentioned in the indictment and had drunk' some of both. Each contained alcohol.
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APPEAL from Pulaski Circuit Court. Hon. J. "W. Martin, Circuit Judge. ■STATEMENT. This was an indictment of the appellant for selling, without license, compounds of ardent liquor known as Home Bitters and Home Sanative Cordial. Upon trial before the court, Brown, a witness for the State, testified that he had purchased from the appellant, in Pulaski County, a bottle of each of the compounds mentioned in the indictment and had drunk' some of both. Each contained alcohol. The medicines in them made them unpleasant to him. He liked whisky; thought enough of these compounds would make a man drunk…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
Smith, J.
Appellant was indicted for selling, without license, compounds of ardent liquors, known as Home Bitters and Home Sanative Cordial. Waiving a jury, he was tried by the court, convicted and fined.
It was admitted he had no license. And it was proved that he had sold a bottle of each of the above-mentioned preparations, in Pulaski County, within twelve months next before the finding of the indictment; and that each of the preparations contained about twenty-two and one-half per cent, of alcohol, in combination with some bitter extracts and flavoring substances.
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