State v. Paskvan

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HARRISON:

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon a verdict finding the defendant guilty of a misdemeanor; that of selling intoxicating liquor to a person under the age of twenty-one years, and from the order of the district court denying a new trial.

On July 9, 1955, one Barry Dean Neu, aged fifteen years, appeared at the Three Rivers Inn, a tavern owned and operated by the defendant, and desired to purchase a case of beer. The defendant asked Neu if he was twenty-one years old. Neu stated he was, but the defendant wanted some identification to prove it. The boy then…