State v. Florence

The defendant was convicted of the crime of a persistent violator of our liquor laws, a felony, and was sentenced to an indeterminate sentence in the Utah State Prison, and appeals. A complaint was filed against him in the justice’s court of Davis county in September, 1929, wherein it was alleged that he, in violation of the statute (Comp. Laws Utah 1917, § 3341 et seq., as amended), in July, 1928, unlawfully, knowingly, and feloniously had in his possession intoxicating liquor, three pints of whisky, and that prior thereto in July, 1924, in the city court in Salt Lake county, he was…