Court Opinion

ID: 4720269
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2021-08-12 02:35:54.329449+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:07:36.875627
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Parker, J.
The defendant, Pierce, was charged and, upon a trial in a justice court of Grant county, adjudged guilty of the offense of unlawfully transporting intoxicating liquor, with intent to sell the same. He appealed therefrom to the superior court of that county wherein, upon a trial before the court and a jury, he was again found guilty, and a judgment ren*695dered against him accordingly, from which he has appealed to this court.
Practically the whole of the argument made in the brief of counsel for appellant is devoted to their claim of error of the superior court in denying his motion for a new trial upon the ground of “insufficiency of the evidence to justify the verdict. ” It is not here claimed in appellant’s behalf-that he was entitled to judgment of dismissal as a matter of law, or to an instructed verdict of not guilty. The controverted question of fact, which counsel on both sides seem to regard as the controlling and only question of fact to be here considered, is as to whether appellant was in Grant county at the time and place of the alleged commission of the offense. Two witnesses testified that they saw appellant at the time and place of the alleged commission of the offense. Nine other witnesses testified that appellant was, at that time, in Spokane, some one hundred and forty miles distant from the place of the alleged commission of the offense. It is conceded that appellant’s automobile, with the liquor and appellant’s coat and gloves in it, was found at the time and place of the alleged commission of the offense. It seems quite clear to us that we cannot hold that the trial court abused its discretion in denying appellant’s motion for a new trial, in so far as it is rested upon the ground of insufficiency of the evidence to sustain the verdict. Other claims of error seem to us so wholly without merit as to not call for further discussion.
The judgment is affirmed.
Holcomb, C. J., Fullerton, Mackintosh, and Bridges, JJ., concur.