Brown v. Commonwealth

The accused has been convicted under the act prohibiting the sale of ardent spirits. While she assigns two errors—one the refusal of the trial court to give the jury an instruction which she offered, and the other the refusal to set aside the verdict and grant her a new trial—-the same question is presented by both assignments.

The evidence for the Commonwealth, all of which the accused admits to be true, shows that she habitually sold corn whiskey at her home during the Christmas season of 1921, and at different times during the year specified in the indictment. She is the wife of Henry…