City of Topeka v. Roberts

Citations

• 92 Kan. 667
• 141 P. 240
• 1914 Kan. LEXIS 302

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Intoxicating Liquors — Reasonable Doubt — Unnecessary to Repeat Instructions. Where the court in a prosecution for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor has given an instruction in its general charge to the effect that unless every fact and element of the offense is proven beyond a reasonable doubt the jury must acquit the defendant it is unnecessary to repeat the instruction and give another making a special application of the rule of reasonable doubt to the question whether the liquor alleged to have been sold was intoxicating.</p>