Parker v. State

The appellant was indicted in the court below for retailing intoxicating liquor, in a less quantity than a quart, without license. Plea, “ not guilty.” A trial by the court resulted in a finding of guilty; motion fora new trial overruled and judgment. The evidence is in the record, and shows that the defendant was licensed under the temperance law of March 5, 1859, (1 G. & H. 614,) to sell intoxicating liquor by a less quantity than a quart at a time. The sale, however, was made on Sunday, but before the law of December. 19,1865, (Acts Spec. Sess. 1865, pp. 197,198,) came into force.

At the…