Hudson v. People

The appellant was tried in the County Court of Franklin county at the August term, 1886, on an indict-merit certified from the Circuit Court, containing six counts, in five of which he is charged with selling intoxicating liquors to A. D. Weston, a person in the habit of getting intoxicated, and in the sixth and last count he is charged with selling intoxicating liquor to said Weston, then intoxicated, and the jury returned the following verdict: “ We, the jury, find the defendant guilty, four counts of the indictment.” At the same term, on motion of defendant, a new trial was awarded. At the…