Garrison v. State

This was a prosecution for a nuisance in keeping a house in a disorderly manner, wherein intoxicating liquors were sold, by “then and there, at divers times, permitting dissolute persons to drink, tipple, carouse, and swear, to the annoyance,” &c. Conviction.

Two points are presented—

1. Upon the admission of evidence.

2. That the evidence is insufficient, &c.

It is urged that the proof should have been confined strictly to the particular acts of disorder mentioned in the information; and that it was, therefore, error to permit, as the Court did, evidence of “ shooting, yelling, and laughing,” in…