Robertson v. State

The appellant was prosecuted in the city court of the city of Muncie by an affidavit in three counts, charging the appellant with violating the liquor law. The first count charged possession, the second transportation, and the third receiving intoxicating liquor. The appellant was found guilty by a jury, who assessed a fine of $400 and imprisonment in the county jail for five months.

The appellant assigns as error the overruling of his motion for a new trial, and one .of the grounds assigned therefor is the giving of instruction No. 14, in which the court told the jury, in substance, that if…