State v. Burton

The defendant was convicted of the offense of having intoxicating liquor in' his possession for sale, and was condemned to pay a fine of $400 and be imprisoned two months, and, in default of paying the fine, to be imprisoned twelve months longer. He has appealed, and relies upon two bills of exception taken to the refusal of the judge to be governed by certain special charges, or propositions of law, submitted by his attorney as soon as all of the evidence was introduced. One of the two bills of exception was reserved to the overruling of a motion for a new trial, in which the defendant…