Case ID: minn_171/html/0520-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "PEE CUEIAM.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE v. GUST GUSSEY.
    
    May 27, 1927.
    No. 26,081.
    Intoxicating liquor.
    Testimony of three witnesses who drank or tasted the liquor that it was moonshine whisky sufficient to justify verdict that it was potable as a beverage. [Beporter.]
    Criminal Law, 16 C. J. p. 756 n. 25.
    . Defendant appealed from an order of the district court for Kandiyohi county, Baker, J., denying his motion for a new trial.
    Affirmed.
    
      L. J. Lauerman, for appellant.
    
      Clifford L. Hilton, Attorney General, James E. Markham, Deputy Attorney General, and Charles A. Szvenson, County Attorney, for the state.
    
      
      Reported in 214 N. W. 652.
    
   PEE CUEIAM.

Defendant was convicted of the crime of unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor potable as a beverage and appeals from an order denying a new trial.

Defendant cites State v. Umlauf, 169 Minn. 422, 211 N. W. 475, holding that the prosecution must prove that the liquor was potable as a beverage, and claims that the prosecution failed to prove that fact in the present case. This is the only point urged against the conviction. Three witnesses who drank or tasted the liquor in question testified that it was moonshine whisky. This was sufficient to justify the jury in finding that it was potable as a beverage. State v. Brown, 151 Minn. 340, 186 N. W. 946; State v. Tremont, 160 Minn. 314, 200 N. W. 93; State v. Ruddy, 160 Minn. 435, 200 N. W. 631.

Order affirmed.