Dobson v. State

The appellant was indicted for selling, to. one William A. Runyon, whiskey by a less quantity than a quart at a time, to wit, one pint, at and for the sum of twenty-five cents, without a license.

Trial by a jury; conviction and judgment. Hew trial refused.

It appeared by the evidence, that Dobson was a clerk in the drug-store of Vinson & Hughes, and, as such clerk, sold to Runyon at several times whiskey, but never less than a quart at a time. Runyon testified that he never bought less than a quart at a time, but that sometimes he did not take it all away at once; that he sometimes took a part…