State v. Lund
State v. Lund
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
At the July session of this court for 1892, this cause was reversed, and remanded for a new trial. (The State v. Lund, 49 Kas. 209, 30 Pac. Rep. 518.) When the cause was called again for trial in the district court, Lund presented a motion asking that the state be required to charge in separate counts the two different offenses alleged in the first count. This motion was sustained by the state’s being permitted to amend by inserting a second and further count, charging Lund with selling and bartering intoxicating liquors in violation of law. After the second count was filed, at the instance of the prosecuting attorney, the court tried the case upon the theory that the first count charged Lund with the offense of keeping and maintaining a common nuisance only, in violation of §392 of the crimes act. (Gen. Stat. of 1889, ¶ 2533.) Lund was sentenced for keeping a common nuisance. The jury found him not guilty upon the charge of selling intoxicating liquors, as alleged in the second count. He appeals, and complains of various rulings. Upon the first trial this case was erroneously tried, upon the theory that two offenses might be charged in one count; that the jury might fiud the defendant guilty of one or both, and that the court might sentence for either. Upon the second trial, however, Lund was not misled in any way by the information. Upon
It is also urged that the trial court committed error in instructing the jury to find Lund guilty of keeping a common nuisance if, at the time alleged, he sold and bartered intoxicating liquors upon the premises described in the first count. In'some cases, perhaps, this instruction might be misleading, or not sufficiently explicit; but in this case there was no evidence tending to show that Lund was acting as clerk or agent for the owner or keeper of the premises, or any other person. The intoxicating liquors were sold upon the premises by a wheel, generally known as “blind tiger,” the person furnishing the intoxicating liquors on the wheel and receiving the money being concealed at the time of the transactions. The evidence clearly showed that Lund was in charge of the premises, had the key for opening and closing the same, and, if he sold and bartered the intoxicating liquors at the time and place as found by the jury, he was clearly guilty of the offense of which he was convicted. (The State v. Schweiter, 27 Kas. 499; The State v. Teissedre, 30 id. 476; The State v. Nickerson, 30 id. 548.)
Upon the record, the trial court committed no error in refusing to sustain the motion for a new trial.
The judgment of the district court will be affirmed.
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