State v. Burns
State v. Burns
Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the Court was delivered by
The three defendants, Burns, Collins and Knight, were charged in one bill of indictment with: (1) Selling alcoholic liquors; (2) maintaining a place where alcoholic liquors were sold which amounted to a nuisance, and (3) storing alcoholic liquors.
The jury found Burns guilty on all three counts and Collins and Knight guilty on the first count, and judgment was pronounced. The defendants appeal, and make eight exceptions ; but their counsel has argued only two questions, and we shall consider none other.
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The judgment of the Circuit Court is affirmed.
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- 1. Criminal Law — Credibility op Witnesses — Detectives.—Credibility of detectives as witnesses is for the jury and the trial Court. 2. Witnesses — Competency op Detective’s Testimony. — A detective’s testimony in a criminal prosecution is competent. 3. Criminal Law — Instructions.—In a prosecution for storing contraband liquors which were kept in defendant’s barn, instructions that it was unlawful to store and keep in possession contraband liquors was sufficient in absence of any request to charge.