State v. Smith

The defendant, John A. Smith, has appealed from the judgment pronounced on his conviction of the crime of giving intoxicating liquor to minors.

The evidence adduced on the trial, briefly stated, is as follows: One Percey Williams testified that on the morning of March 7, 1925, at the request- of defendant, he went from Virginia City to Laurin, where he procured from a person to whom he was directed by defendant, a one-gallon jug of moonshine whisky, placing it in a traveling bag furnished by defendant for that purpose and charging the whisky to defendant, and that, on his return to Virginia…