Legal Opinion

State v. Nethken

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided November 27, 1906PublishedCited by 2 opinions

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.

Sufficien…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Halstead v. HortonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1894
  2. Lafler v. FisherMichigan Supreme Court · 1899
  3. Smith v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1892
  4. Wadsworth v. DunnamSupreme Court of Alabama · 1893
  5. State v. WhitterWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1881

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. State v. GibsonWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1910
  2. Akana v. TerritoryHawaii Supreme Court · 1915

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