Case Name: Stolte v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1888-05-30
Citations: 115 Ind. 128
Docket Number: No. 14,212
Parties: Stolte v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 115
Pages: 128–129

Head Matter:
No. 14,212.
Stolte v. The State.
Intoxicating Liquor.— Unlawful Sale. — Proof.—Upon an appeal from a conviction for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor, the fact that the State did not prove the names of the alleged purchasers is immaterial if it appears that the defendant himself made such proof.
Same.— Weight of Emdence. — Reversal of Judgment. — A judgment will not he reversed upon the weight of conflicting evidence.
From the Marion Criminal Court.
J. N. Scott, for appellant.
L. T. Michener, Attorney General, and J. H. Gillett, for the State.
Filed May 30, 1888.

Opinion:
Zollars, J.
Appellant was fined below for having sold intoxicating liquor on Sunday. The only ground urged for a reversal is, that the finding and judgment are not sustained by sufficient evidence.
It is claimed that the State did not prove the names of the persons to whom it claimed the liquor was sold, nor in any way identify them. Without deciding what the State proved, or was bound to prove in that regard, it is sufficient here that appellant by himself and his witnesses very clearly proved the names of those persons.
The real dispute was as to whether appellant sold them beer, as claimed by the State, or sweet cider, as claimed by him. Upon that question there was a conflict in the testimony. It was the right and duty of the trial court to determine the credibility of the witnesses, and it had facilities for doing that which it is impossible for this court to have. Where there is such a conflict, this court, as has been many times decided, will not reverse a judgment upon the weight •of the evidence.
Judgment affirmed, with costs.