Lathrope v. State

Prosecution against the appellant, under the act of February 27th, 1873, for selling, on the 14th of March, 1874, intoxicating liquor to one Rezin Winship, a person in the habit of getting intoxicated. Plea, not guilty, trial by jury, conviction, motion for a new trial overruled and judgment.

The appellant claims that the evidence was radically defective in respect to two material points, viz., the habits of Winship, and the person by whom the liquor was sold to him. With regard to Winship, it may be observed that the evidence shows him to have been a substantial, industrious, well-to-do…