State v. Benson

*3151. intoxicating nuisance: evidence. *314The defendant was accused in the indictment of having maintained a place wherein intoxicating *315liquors were kept for sale and sold contrary to law between March 1, 1909, and February 24, 1911, the time of finding the indictment. On trial, testimony of three witnesses that he had sold whisky prior to March 1, 1909, was received over objection. This was error which was not obviated by the seventeenth instruction in which the jury was told “that such testimony should be considered by you only as it may tend to throw light on the intentions and motives of…