State v. Geist

Defendant was charged generally and convicted of the offense of selling intoxicating liquors in Putnam county in violation of the Local Option Law in force in such county.

He kept a lunch room or restaurant and had a clerk or assistant named Martin. The evidence for the State related to sales at different times, said to have heen made to two men, one named Craft and the other Panes. An instruction was given in which it was submitted that if the jury believed from the evidence that defendant “sold Craft or Panes” intoxicating liquors, they would find him guilty. Following the reasoning in State…