Morales

Defendant has appealed from a judgment directing that he pay a fine in the sum of six hundred dollars or suffer the alternative of imprisonment until the fine be satisfied in the proportion of two dollars for each day that he shall be so imprisoned. An appeal is also taken from an order denying a motion for a new trial.

[1] Appellant was accused of having, on the twenty-second day of June, 1919, in certain “no-license territory,” sold, furnished, distributed, and given away alcoholic liquors.' These acts, under the provisions of the statute known as the Wyllie law, constitute a high grade misdemeanor. The principal evidence showing that appellant had on the day charged committed the alleged crime was that furnished by two detectives, who testified that two pints of whiskey were delivered to one_ of them, for which six dollars was paid for each pint. The defendant testified and denied that he had sold the whiskey as charged. Over the objection of defendant, the prosecution was permitted to show that the appellant, on the 25th of June, three days after the alleged commission of the offense charged, had sold some drinks of whisky, and that on July 12th he had sold and offered to…