State v. Fleetwood

The prosecution is by indictment returned by the grand jury of Ozark county, on the 13th day of August, 1907, charging that the Local Option Law was in force in said county on said day, and that the defendant did then and there unlawfully sell one-half gallon of whiskey to one Newton Mahan.

The defendant entered a plea of not guilty, and was tried before a jury of his peers, and convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine of five hundred dollars, and six months in the county jail. The cause is here on his appeal.

On behalf of the State, Newt Mahan testified that in February, 1907, he gave…