State v. Goff

The defendant was tried and convicted upon an information which charged that on the-day of September, 1893, he sold in the county of Madison spirituous liquors in less quantity than five gallons, to wit, one pint of whisky, without having a dramshop keeper’s license. He appeals and assigns for error that the evidence offered did not warrant the conviction; and that the court rejected legal evidence offered by him, and refused to submit to the jury his plea of former adjudication.

The testimony adduced tended to show that the defendant and his father were jointly interested in running a drug…