STATE v. SKIPWORTH

No. 6372.

326 P.2d 669 (1958)

64 N.M. 175

STATE of New Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Jack SKIPWORTH, Defendant-Appellant.

Supreme Court of New Mexico.

June 11, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Neal & Neal, Hobbs, Hartley & Buzzard, Clovis, for appellant.

Fred M. Standley, Atty. Gen., Howard M. Rosenthal, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.


SADLER, Justice.

The appellant, defendant below, was charged in an information filed against him by the district attorney of the Ninth Judicial District within and for Curry County of possessing alcoholic liquor for sale without a license so to do. Upon the trial, he was convicted and prosecutes this appeal from the sentence imposed upon him by the court.

The evidence disclosed that in a local option election in 1939 Curry County voted against the sale of...

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