Walton v. City of Cañon City

Defendant Walton was arraigned and prosecuted before the police magistrate of the plaintiff city upon three separate charges of violation of an ordinance prohibiting the sale of liquor within the city limits. He was found guilty, and a *78fine assessed against him in each of the three cases. He appealed to the county court, in which by consent of parties and for the purpose of trial, the three causes were consolidated and tried at the' same time. Trial was to a jury, which under the instructions of the court that it was simply to make a finding as to the guilt or innocence of the accused,…