Buhrle v. Commonwealth
Buhrle v. Commonwealth
Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the Court by
Affirming.
The appellant, Mrs. Irene Buhrle, was tried and convicted before a justice of the peace of Daviess county under a warrant charging her with selling intoxicating liquor not for any of the permissible purposes in the statute. She appealed to the Daviess circuit court where she was also convicted and her motion for a new trial was •overruled and she appeals. But two grounds are urged for a reversal and they are: (1), That the verdict of the jury was flagrantly against the evidence, and (2), error of the court in not naming in its instruction the date of the issual of the warrant.
Two witnesses swore positively that one of them purchased from defendant at her place of business in Owensboro a half-pint of moonshine whiskey and paid her $1.25 therefor. Defendant denied that,-but admitted that the two prosecuting witnesses we're in her establishment at the time about which they testified. Her son and two other witnesses, the latter of whom were in the dining room at the rear of the building, substantially corroborated her denial of the sale, and this was all the testimony heard upon'the trial. It is, therefore, manifest that this ground is without foundation.
The instruction complained of under ground (2), said to the jury that if they believed ‘ ‘ from the evidence in this case to the exclusion of a reasonable doubt, that the defendant, in Daviess county, Kentucky; and within
Wherefore, the judgment is affirmed.
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