Severns v. State

The plaintiff in error, Henry Severns, was convicted, and, in accordance with the verdict of the jury, was sentenced to pay a fine of $500, and to be confined in the county jail for six months, on an information charging that he did “have in his possession certain intoxicating liquor, to wit, 15 gallons of Choc beer and one quart of whisky; said Choc beer then and there containing more than one-half of 1 per cent, of alcohol, measured by volume, and capable of being used as a beverage, with the unlawful intent to sell the same.”

To reverse the judgment he appeals and assigns as error certain…