Skinner v. State

This was a prosecution by the State against the appellant under section 2097, R. S. 1881, for keeping a disorderly liquor shop.

That section provides that “ Whoever keeps a place where intoxicating liquors are sold, bartered, given awa-y, or suffered to be drunk in a disorderly manner, to the annoyance or injury of any part of the citizens of this State, shall be fined, for every day the same is so kept, not more than one hundred dollars nor less than ten dollars.”

The indictment charges that the appellant, Allen Skinner, on the 1st day of June, A. D. 1888, and continuously thereafter to the…