Ware v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Prom the circuit court of Copiah county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. Appellants, G. -L. and T. P. Ware, were jointly indicted and convicted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in violation of the special act of Pebruary 29, 1888, prohibiting the-sale of intoxicating liquors in any quantity in supervisors’ district number one, Copiah county. (Laws, p. 170.) The case sufficiently appears from the opinion.
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Prom the circuit court of Copiah county. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. Appellants, G. -L. and T. P. Ware, were jointly indicted and convicted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in violation of the special act of Pebruary 29, 1888, prohibiting the-sale of intoxicating liquors in any quantity in supervisors’ district number one, Copiah county. (Laws, p. 170.) The case sufficiently appears from the opinion. By the instructions given for the state, the jury was authorized to convict if the evidence showed that intoxicating liquor was-sold to McLemore by Norton, the clerk and agent óf G. L. Ware,…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, J.
The appellants were jointly indicted for unlawful retailing. They were charged, necessarily, with a single offense. Evidence of numerous sales, said to have been made by the one or the other of the appellants, was introduced over their objection. At the conclusion of the introduction of the state’s testimony, the court required the district attorney to elect the sales he would rely on, and thereupon he elected to rely upon two sales claimed to have been made — one by G. L. Ware to McLemore and the other by T. P. Ware to Davis; and then the court instructed the jury that those two sales, and…
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