Bliss

An information was filed in the superior court of the county of Humboldt, charging that the defendant, on the fifth day of October, 1918, within no-license territory, “did willfully, knowingly and unlawfully, sell, furnish, distribute and give away alcoholic liquors, to wit: whisky . . . to, George Normile and Dan Rogers and other persons whose names are unknown.” Defendant was convicted of the crime charged in the information and was sentenced to pay a fine of six hundred dollars, or if the fine be not paid to be imprisoned in the county jail one day for each two dollars of said fine. The appeal is by the defendant from the judgment and from an order denying his motion for a new trial.

Thfe defendant first contends that the evidence does not support the verdict.

It was stipulated at the trial that the town of Pepperwood, in Humboldt County, was in “no-license territory.”

The evidence shows that the defendant lived with his brother, Daniel Bliss, and his sister in a house on the road to Eureka about one mile from the store of one Zecca, in Pepperwood, and that defendant always kept intoxicating liquors at his home for his own use. On the fifth day of October, 1918, his supply…