State v. Stratton

Defendant was convicted of giving away moonshine whiskey, in violation of Section 21 of Laws of 1923, page 242; ivas sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary for two years, and has appealed.

The defendant offered' no testimony. The evidence offered on the part of the State tends to show that on or about July 25, 1923, one Carpenter drove his horse and buggy to a field on a farm in Marion County, where defendant and others were baling hay, and that defendant took a bottle from Carpenter’s buggy and drank from it, put it between two bales of hay and afterwards passed the bottle around among…