State v. Krasne

The defendant was engaged in retailing men’s and women’s furnishing goods at Omaha. He was found guilty in the police court of that city under section 8896, Rev. St. 1913, of having caused to he published on Saturday, July 15, 1916, in an Omaha daily newspaper a misleading advertisment, which the complaint charged “contained statements of fact which were untrue, deceptive and misleading,” and that related to certain goods offered by him for sale. On appeal to the district court for Douglas county a jury was waived, and when the state rested a demurrer to the evidence was interposed by…