State v. Raper

The defendant, Alma Raper, was indicted for and convicted of the crime of unlawfully selling alcoholic liquor on January 3, 1943, to one Robert Cover, a minor then between eighteen and nineteen years of age. The crime is alleged to have been committed at Bend, Oregon. From a judgment sentencing him to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed two months and to payment of a fine of three hundred dollars, the defendant has appealed.

Three assignments of error are presented, the first two qf which raise the same question. An exception was taken to the court’s instruction that:

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