Allen

Defendant was informed against by the district attorney of Modoc County for the crime of unlawfully selling alcoholic liquors, to wit: “That on or about the twenty-ninth day of May, 1917, and before the filing of this information, at and in the county of Modoc, state of California, said Felix Allen then and there, within the incorporated limits of the town of Alturas, in said county, which was then and there no-license territory, willfully and unlawfully did sell and furnish alcoholic liquor, to wit: whisky, to one Lulu Sisson,” contrary, etc. The cause was tried before a jury and defendant was found guilty. Judgment on the verdict was that defendant pay a fine of four hundred dollars and in default of payment that he be confined in the county jail of said county, one day for each two dollars of said fine. Defendant appeals from the judgment and from the order denying his motion for a new trial.

■ It is now urged that the court committed the following errors: 1. In refusing a continuance of the trial for the purpose of giving defendant the opportunity to produce the witness, A. Gibson; 2. Admitting expert testimony as to the character of the liquid introduced by the prosecution;…