State v. Proffer

The appellant, Proffer, was convicted npon an information charging him with conducting and maintaining a place for the sale of intoxicating liquor.

The state’s evidence tended to show that the appellant was an employee in a place of which another was owner and proprietor, and in which were conducted and maintained a card room, a billiard hall, a gymnasium, and an “old fashioned bar,” over which was ostensibly sold various liquid mixtures commonly known as soft drinks. The state’s evidence also tended to show that, during the absence of the proprietor, the appellant had charge and control of…