State v. O'Kelley

The defendant was prosecuted in Dade county, Missouri, by information in which he was *407charged with having violated the Local Option Law. On trial before a jury, he was convicted and his punishment assessed, a fine of $800 from which he has duly appealed.

Only two grounds of error are assigned, (1) that the court erred in instructing the jury that under the evidence in this case what is known as the Local Option Law was in force in the said county of Dade during the month of October, 1909, at the time the offense was charged to have been committed; (2) the failure of the trial court to give an…