Amort
People v. Amort
Opinion
Lead Opinion
Hart, J.
The defendant was convicted in the superior court of Glenn County under an indictment charging him with selling intoxicating liquor in no-license territory, in said county of Glenn, contrary to the provisions of the so-called Wyllie Local Option Law. (Stats. 1911, p.- 599.) The indictment charges the defendant, in five different counts, with selling intoxicating liquor to three different persons.
In the first count it is charged that the defendant, on November 11, 1921, sold intoxicating liquor to one Frank Mursa. In the second, third and fourth counts it is alleged that the defendant on the first, tenth and fourteenth days of November, respectively, sold intoxicating liquor to one Ladine and in the fifth count it is charged that he sold such liquor to one Frank Howard on the fifteenth day of November, 1921. In each of the counts it is alleged that the liquor so charged to have been sold by said defendant was “spirituous, intoxicating liquor containing more than one per cent in volume of alcohol.” He was convicted under the first, second, third and fifth counts of the indictment. A motion for a new trial by him was denied and thereupon he was fined the sum of $600, being $150 on…