Johnson v. People
Illinois Supreme Court
Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. William W. Heatoh, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Charles C. Johnson for selling intoxicating liquor to minors at a fourth of July celebration. It contained twenty-four counts, charging sales to twelve different named persons. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and a trial was had resulting in a verdict finding the defendant guilty, except as to the seventeenth and eighteenth counts.
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Writ of Error to the Circuit Court of Lee county; the Hon. William W. Heatoh, Judge, presiding. This was an indictment against Charles C. Johnson for selling intoxicating liquor to minors at a fourth of July celebration. It contained twenty-four counts, charging sales to twelve different named persons. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and a trial was had resulting in a verdict finding the defendant guilty, except as to the seventeenth and eighteenth counts. The defendant moved for a new trial, which was denied, and judgment rendered on the verdict.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Walker
It is first urged, that the evidence fails to sustain a verdict of guilty under the sixteenth count, and that there was no other count under which plaintiff in error could have been convicted of sales actually made by him. Barton swears that plaintiff in error sold to him two glasses of beer, one for himself and the other for one Bitner. Plaintiff in error denies that there was any such sale; that he sold none to him, nor did he sell to any other person. Barton testified that he was eighteen years old.
There was a flat contradiction between the statements of these witnesses, and it was for the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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