Sebert v. State

The plaintiff in error, defendant in the trial court, was convicted of the unlawful sale of one pint of whisky, with his punishment fixed at 30 days in jail and a fine of $50.

Where the only witness for the state is a hired detective, employed to entrap the accused and others, who after previous failures to purchase whisky from the defendant in the presence of witnesses claims that he purchased a pint of whisky from the defendant in his place of business while there alone with him, and not in the presence of any other witness, and where it appears that the detective had no definite…