Loftus v. District of Columbia

HITZ, Acting Associate Justice.

This case comes to this court upon a writ of error, duly allowed, from the police court of the District of Columbia. The plaintiff in error, hereinafter called the defendant, was charged by an information, filed December 20, 1918, in the first count, with having on December 19, 1918, sold certain alcoholic and other liquors prohibited by law. There was a second count charging him with keeping the same for sale, but at the trial, which took place June 15, 1920, on motion of the defendant, the District elected to stand on the first count. The facts necessary to be…