Stuart v. State

The plaintiff in error was tried in the county court of Jefferson county on the 27th day of October, 1909, on a charge of unlawfully permitting the sale of intoxicating liquor on premises owned and controlled by him. A verdict of guilty was returned, and his punishment fixed at a fine of five hundred dollars and imprisonment for six months in the county jail.

On the 29th day of October, thereafter, the following motion in arrest of judgment was filed:

“Comes now the defendant in the above entitled action, and moves the court to grant this defendant a new trial in the above entitled action, and…