Bell v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Error to Sebastian Circuit Court, Greenwood District; Daniel Hon, Judge; 1. The venue was not proved. If it be conceded that the court can take judicial notice that cities and incorporated towns in the State are within the jurisdiction of any particular court, it nevertheless could not take judicial notice of collections of houses, although they may have a name by which they are locally known.
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Error to Sebastian Circuit Court, Greenwood District; Daniel Hon, Judge; 1. The venue was not proved. If it be conceded that the court can take judicial notice that cities and incorporated towns in the State are within the jurisdiction of any particular court, it nevertheless could not take judicial notice of collections of houses, although they may have a name by which they are locally known. “Old Jenny Lind” or “Mine 18” is not found on any map, and is not even a postoffice. Bonanza is on the State line, and there is nothing in the record to show that Old Jenny Lind or Mine 18 may not be in…
1Opinion of the CourtFrauenthal, J.
The appellant was convicted of the offense of selling liquor without license in violation of section 5112 of Kirby’s Digest, and seeks by this appeal a reversal of the conviction. The indictment in effect charged that the appellant did, in 1908, unlawfully sell and was interested in the sale of ardent and malt and fermented liquors in Jenny Lind in the Greenwood District of Sebastian County without first having procured a license therefor.
The evidence tended to establish the following facts: The appellant was in 1908 engaged in the saloon business at Bonanza, which is in said Greenwood…
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