State v. McBeth

Defendant was informed against and convicted of having intoxicating liquor in his possession for. sale for beverage purposes, and prosecutes this appeal from the sentence pronounced against him.

On the trial of the case it appears that the district attorney asked one of the state’s witnesses the following question, to wit:

■‘Do you know the reputation of the defendant in reference to his dealing in intoxicating liquor?”

The witness answered the question in the affirmative, whereupon the defendant objected to the testimony about to be offered, because the state was without right to offer such…