State v. Cook

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(on rehearing). Defendant was convicted of the crime of bootlegging. In the information she was charged with soiling “one pint of alcohol.” She made a motion in arrest of judgment and, in the alternative, for a new trial. The motion was denied and defendant appeals from the order denying the motion and from the judgment.

The testimony of the state’s witnesses tends to show that on June 12, 1923, two prohibition agents met the defendant apparently by appointment, in a room in a hotel in the city of Fargo, and purchased from her a pint bottle containing a certain liquid. The bottle was…