75 W. Va. 565 | W. Va. | 1915
Defendant was convicted "upon an indictment found at the June term, 1913, charging him with “selling, offering and exposing for sale, soliciting and receiving orders for spirituous liquors” without a state license therefor, and was adjudged to pay a fine of $25.00 and to be confined in jail for sixty days, and brings error.
Defendant having waived a jury, the case was tried by the court. We do not see that he committed any error. The rule of this court is to consider the case as if upon a demurrer to the evidence, plaintiff in error being regarded as the demur-rant. Board of Education v. Parsons, 24 W. Va. 551. Hence, if the evidence is such as would have justified the court in overruling a motion to set aside a verdict of a jury found
Affirmed.