Carswell v. State

1. The defendant was convicted upon an indictment charging him with the illegal sale of intoxicating liquor. The first point he makes is that the evidence is insufficient, in that the witnesses, in testifying to the sale, spoke of purchasing “liquor,” but did not say that it was “intoxicating liquor.” The State’s main witness said, “I bought a half-pint of liquor.” Further on-in the testimony he describes the liquor he bought by saying, “it looked like rye whisky.” It is true that the word “liquor” has more than one meaning, and that in the broad sense it includes any liquid or fluid…