State v. Hughes

This case comes into this court upon appeal from the Criminal Court of St. Louis county, where the appellant was convicted upon an indictment filed in said court on the 25th of September, 1855, charging the appellant, in the usual form, with selling intoxicating liquors in St. Louis county, on the 1st of January, 1855, without license, by the glass, to Daniel Worthington, and others to the grand jury unknown. The questions arising upon this appeal grow out of the action of the court below upon the trial of the cause.

The cause was tried in the court below on the 23d November, 1855 ; the…