Blackwell v. State

S. J. Blackwell was indicted for selling a pint of intoxicating liquor to J. B. Coats within three miles of a school house in Dardanelle, where the local option law of twenty-first of March, 1881, had been put into operation by an order of the county court of Yell County.

On the trial it was proved that defendant kept a billiard hall in Dardanelle, and was a partner in a saloon at Caulks-ville, six miles out.

J. B. Coats, witness for the State, testified, in substance, that defendant kept a billiard hall in Dardanelle, and he got some whisky from his house on last Friday (before the trial).…