State v. Nethken
West Virginia Supreme Court
Error to Circuit Court, Randolph County. George Nethken and others were convicted of a violation of the liquor law, and bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
Poffenbarger, Judge:
On the verdict of a jury, finding them guilty, as licensed retailers of spirituous liquors, of unlawfully selling and giving away such liquors to one John Riggleman, a person intoxicated at the time, George Nethken and Truman Nethken were adjudged, by the circuit court of Randolph county, to pay a fine of fifty dollars, to which judgment they obtained a writ of error.
*674All tlie errors assigned go to the sufficiency of the evidence. The court overruled a motion to exclude it from the jury, and, after verdict, a motion to set the same aside, and grant them a new trial.
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