State v. Nunemacher
State v. Nunemacher
Opinion of the Court
John L. Nunemacher, the keeper of a barroom in the city of New Orleans, and William Gerdes, his barkeeper, were jointly charged with having sold to Emile Hessler, a 16 year old boy, intoxicating liquor, on November 9, 1919. Nunemacher was charged in a second count with having ■ committed the same offense on a former occasion, and with having been convicted thereof. They were found guilty and sentenced, and they have appealed.
The record contains seven bills of exceptions, six of which relate to the sufficiency of the evidence introduced on. the trial to support a finding of guilty. Appellants made all the testimony taken in the case, including Lhe bottle of wine sold to Hessler,
Emile Hessler, the minor, who bought the wine, testified as a witness that he bought the bottle of wine from William Gerdes, the barkeeper of Nunemacher’s saloon, and that the bottle produced on the trial of the case was the same bottle which he had bought. One of the officers who made the charge against defendants opened the bottle at the time the charge was made, smelled it, and testified that it contained wine. The trial judge tasted the contents of the bottle, after it had been introduced in evidence, and he found and declared that it was intoxicating liquor.
The trial appears to have been regularly conducted, and defendants were tried and convicted under due process of law.
The judgment appealed from is affirmed.
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- (Syllabus by Editorial Staff.) 1.Criminal law On appeal from conviction in an intoxicating liquor case, appellate court will not determine the question of whether the liquor was intoxicating; such question being for the trial court or jury. 2. Criminal law &wkey;260(ll) — Finding of LOWER COURT ON SUFFICIENCY OF EVIDENCE TO CONVICT NOT RE VIEWABLE. The Supreme Court cannot review finding of lower court on sufficiency of the evidence to convict. 3. Criminal law Refusal of a continuance was harmless, where ruling of court was changed and a continuance subsequently ordered.