Fleming v. State

Peter Fleming was tried in the superior court of Hart county, under an indictment charging him with the unlawful sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors, to wit, whisky. To this indictment he pleaded not guilty. The evidence in behalf of the State was substantially as follows: On the 11th of August, 1897, the accused was in Hart county detected in drawing whisky from a barrel into a. gallon pot. The barrel was located in a wagon. There were several bystanders present while the accused was engaged in this act of measuring whisky, and one of them had some change in his hand. A marshal of…