State v. Ervin

Lows, C.

Defendant was charged in an indictment returned by the grand jury of Lyon county with having sold to Leo Welsh, a minor, two quarts of moonshine whiskey to be used as a beverage. Tried and convicted, he has appealed from' an order denying his motion for a new trial.

The state introduced evidence showing that on February 27, 1926, a man named Linnan operated the Duluth Hotel at Marshall and that defendant was a roomer at the hotel; that in the evening of that day John Watkins, who' was 24 years old, and Leo Welsh, who was 16 years old, came to the hotel; that defendant .was acquainted…