State v. Husemoen

The defendant was convicted for “selling intoxicating liquor, to wit: moonshine whisky.” lie appeals from the judgment of conviction. He assigns some forty-three specifications of error. Nearly all of these are directed against rulings on questions of evidence. His main reliance, however, is on the insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the judgment of conviction.

The chief witnesses for the state, Eckness, Lemieux, Leist, and Bot, were young men who worked as farm hands in Ransom county. One night they set out to drive to a country dance. On the way Eckness and the driver of the car left…