Salladay

Defendant was convicted of selling liquor in “no license” territory in Mendocino County and he has appealed from the judgment and the order denying his motion for a new trial.

The only claim for reversal urged by appellant relates to the ruling of the court sustaining an objection to questions affecting the inebriety of the principal witness for the people. The witness, Glasgo Riggle, testified that he was employed by the sheriff to go to Covelo and “catch some of the blind piggers”; that he expected to get fifty dollars or more if the defendant were convicted; that he purchased a bottle of whiskey from the defendant in the evening of October 27, and that he remained in Covelo all together for fifteen or sixteen days. He admitted that during this period he drank “quite a bit of liquor,” but the court sustained the district attorney’s objection to the following questions asked on cross-examination: “Were you drunk at all or intoxicated during that time?” “As a matter of fact, Mr. Riggle, you were intoxicated during a greater portion of the time during that fifteen or sixteen days, were you not?” “Now, during a greater part of that time you were in Covelo, you carried a bottle…