State v. Pritchard
State v. Pritchard
Opinion of the Court
The information upon which the conviction complained of is based charges that “John Pritchard, on the 26th day of October, 1901, at the city of Yankton, in the county of Yankton and state of South Dakota, did unlawfully and willfully furnish, give, and sell spirituous liquor to one Sampson Erickson, the said Sampson Erickson being then and there in the habit of getting intoxicated, and the said John Pritchard having- then and there previously been notified in writing that the said Sampson Erickson was in the habit of getting intoxicated, and not to sell intoxicating liquors to him, the said Sampson Erickson.” So far as material to this case, section 11, c. 141, Laws 1901, is as follows: “It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, furnish or give away any spirituous, malt brewed, fermented or vinous liquors * * * to any person in the habit of getting intoxicated when notified in writing by any person or persons that such person is in the habit of getting intoxicated. * * * The fact of selling, giving or furnishing any liquor in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold or kept for sale * * * to any person in the habit
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- 1. Laws 1901, c. 141, § 11, provides that it shall be unlawful for any person to furnish any spirituous liquors to any person in the habit of getting intoxicated, after notification, and that the fact of furnishing any liquor in any place where intoxicating liquors are sold to any such person shall be prima facie evidence of an intent to violate the law. There was evidence that after notice that a certain person was in the habit of getting intoxicated such person was seen at defendant’s bar with an ordinary whisky bottle and two whisky glasses before him, and that he poured what looked like whisky out of the bottle into one of the glasses and drank the liquor, while defendant filled the other glass. Held to justify a verdict of guilty. 2. Where the information charged defendant with furnishing spirituous liquor to one who was in the habit of getting intoxicated, and the evir dence was that the liquor furnished was whiskey, the fact that in -an ' instruction the court referred to the liquor as “intoxicating,” instead of “spirituous,” gave defendant no just cause for complaint.