Statea v. Gates

Bronson, Ch. J.

This is a prosecution for bootlegging. Defendant has appealed from a judgment of conviction. The information charges that defendant, between March 8th, 1923 and April 2nd, 1923, sold and bartered to one Widmer and divers other persons, intoxicating liquor contrary to the statute. The so-termed 'bootlegging statute is chap. 194, Laws of 1915. The proof offered by the state is to the effect that on March 8th, 1923, in the evening, defendant sold and delivered to one Widmer one quart of whiskey for $15.00, then paid, in the Colonial Hotel in Devils Lake; that, likewise, on April…