People v. Girotti

By separate counts in the information the defendant was charged with two unlawful sales of intoxicating liquor, one alleged to have been made on the 18th and the other on the 22d of October, 1923. He was convicted of both offenses and prosecutes this appeal from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

L. R. King, a private detective employed by the district attorney, testified that he purchased whisky from defendant as charged in both counts; that on the 22d he arrived at defendant’s store at Merced Falls about 5 or 5:30 o’clock in the evening, not later than 5:30'; that…