Mosier v. State

The plaintiff in error, for convenience referred to as the defendant, was by information charged with selling two pints of whisky to Mrs. Harvey, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $50 and be imprisoned in the county jail for forty days. Motion for new trial was filed, considered, overruled, and defendant, by petition in error, with case-made attached, appeals to this court to reverse the judgment.

The testimony of the state shows the officers went out to Mrs. Harvey’s place, who lived near the defendant, and made some kind of a trade with Mrs. Harvey to go down and see if she could buy some…