State v. Upton
Decision Date | 14 April 1908 |
Citation | 130 Mo. App. 316,109 S.W. 821 |
Parties | STATE v. UPTON. |
Court | Missouri Court of Appeals |
Appeal from Circuit Court, Cape Girardeau County; Henry C. Riley, Judge.
Newton Upton was convicted of selling liquor on Sunday, and appeals. Reversed and remanded.
At the January, 1906, term of the Cape Girardeau circuit court defendant was tried by a jury, and convicted of a violation of section 3011 of the dramshop act. The state offered in evidence defendant's dramshop license, which showed it was granted him on November 19, 1905, and permitted him to keep a dramshop in the city of Cape Girardeau for a period of six months. The information charged, and the state's evidence tended to show, that defendant's dramshop or a dramshop known as his, was kept open on the 19th day of November, 1905, being the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and that both beer and whisky were then and there sold to divers persons by the bartender in charge. Defendant testified in his own behalf that on October 29, 1906, he sold his dramshop to McLain and Stafford for $900 cash, and on the payment of the cash to him he delivered possession of the saloon to the purchasers, and has had no connection with the saloon or control over it since the sale, which he testified was made in good faith. On cross-examination defendant testified that after his arrest on the information he, in company with McLain, at the latter's request, called at the office of the prosecuting attorney with the view of fixing the matter up. In answer to a question witness said: ...
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