State v. Martin

• Decision Date: 15 January 1923
• Citation: State v. Martin, 119 A. 924 (Me. 1923)
• Parties: STATE v. MARTIN.
• Court: Maine Supreme Court

119 A. 924

STATE

v. MARTIN.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Jan. 15, 1923.

Exceptions from Supreme Judicial Court, York County, at Law.Amanda Martin was found guilty of violating the liquor law, and she excepts.Exceptions overruled.Argued before Cornish, C. J., and Spear, Philbrook, Dunn, and Deasy, JJ.

Edward S. Titcomb, Co. Atty., of Sanford, for the State.

John P. Deering, of Biddeford, for respondent.

PER CURIAM.Complaint for search and seizure of intoxicating liquors.After verdict of guilty the case is before the law court on respondent's exceptions to the ruling of the presiding justice declining to order a verdict for the respondent.Held, that upon the evidence for the state, supplemented by the circumstances and the rather improbable story of the respondent, the jury were warranted in believing,...