Case ID: la_111/html/0091-02.html
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Author: {"author": "NICHOLLS, C. J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

(35 South. 405.)
    No. 14,962.
    STATE v. STOVER.
    (Nov. 16, 1903.)
    INTOXICATING LIQUORS—ILLEGAL SALE—INDICTMENT.
    ■ 1. Under an indictment found on the 10th of July, 1903, charging defendant with having on “the 1st day of May, 1903, unlawfully kept a grog and tippling shop, and then and there retailed spirituous liquors without previously obtaining a license,” it was permissible to the state, in aid of the prosecution, to introduce evidence showing the defendant had done so' in the middle of May, 1903. ;- \7 ;
    (Syllabus by the Court.)
    Appeal from -Eleventh Judicial District Court, Parish of Red River; Charles V. Poster, Judge.
    John 'Stover was convicted of an illegal sale of liquor, and appeals.
    .Affirmed..
    Sebeen & Stephens, for appellant. ¡[Walter Guión, -Atty. .Gen., and William A. ^Yilkinson, Dist. Atty., for the State. *
   NICHOLLS, C. J.

The’only question presented to us for decision is whether under the indictment found on the 10th day of July, 1903, charging that the defendant, in the parish of Red River, did on the 1st day of May, 1903, unlawfully keep a grog and tippling shop, and. then and there retail spirituous liquors, without previously obtaining a license, it was permissible for the state to introduce evidence that the accused had done so some time in the middle of May, 1903.

Under the authority of section 1063 of the Revised Statutes of 1876, and repeated decisions of this court, this question must be answered in the affirmative, and this answer carried with it the affirmance of the judgment appealed from. See State v. Aqudo et al., 5 La. Ann. 185; State v. Walters, 16 La. Ann. 400; State v. Wallman, 31 La. Ann. 147; State v. Polite, 33 La. Ann. 1016; State v. Kane, 33 La. Ann. 1269; State v. Johnson, 35 La. Ann. 842; State v. Hamilton, 48 La. Ann. 1566, 21 South. 232; State v. Hardaway, 50 La. Ann. 1348, 24 South. 320; State v. Ackerman, 51 La. Ann. 1213, 26 South. 80.

The judgment appealed from is affirmed.