State v. Compton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

The defendant was convicted on five separate counts, in one information, of being a persistent violator of the prohibitory liquor law, and was sentenced to one year- in the penitentiary on each count, in all five years. The defendant appeals, and urges:

1. Error in denying the motion to quash information.

2. Error of the court in instructing jury.

3. Error in overruling a challenge to a juror.

The matters complained of in the instructions are:(a) Instructing the jury that they might find the defendant guilty on the first, second, third, fifth,…