State v. Hale

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE ADAIR:

The appellant herein J. T. Hale, by information filed in the district court of Hill County, Montana, was accused of the crime of unlawfully selling beer to a person under the age of 21 years, on which charge he was tried, convicted by a jury and sentenced to be punished by a fine of $500 and by imprisonment in the county jail of Hill County for a term of four months.

From the judgment of conviction the accused appealed to this court.

The appeal was set for oral argument for the morning of May 18, 1954, at which time counsel for the state and counsel for the appellant…