Cook v. State

Citations

• 81 Miss. 146

Syllabus

<p>1. Boundaries, State and County. Mississippi rimer. Territorial jurisdiction. Code 1898, <¡<¡345, 347, 361. Laws 1898, p. 365.</p> <p>The counties of this state, and. the territorial jurisdiction of courts, bordering on the Mississippi river, extend to the centre or thread of the stream.</p> <p>3. Intoxicating Liquors. Sale. Evidence. Ferry boat on Mississippi rimer.</p> <p>Where the owner of a steam ferry boat, plying the Mississippi river from a point within to a point without this state, was indicted for the unlawful sale of intoxicants, it was error to. permit the state to prove:—</p> <p>(a) What a witness had found on the boat more than a year after the sale of which the indictment was predicated.</p> <p>(b) Other sales, made without this state.</p> <p>(e) The general character and reputation of the boat as that of a ‘ ‘ whisky boat. ”</p> <p>3. Same. United States Liquor Dealer's license. Parol evidence.</p> <p>The contents of a United States liquor dealer’s license, in the ab-sense of notice to produce, cannot be proved by parol.</p> <p>4. Evidence. Objections and exceptions. Waiver.</p> <p>An objection to evidence, proper exception being taken, is not waived by a failure to renew the objection at other stages of the •case to which it is applicable.</p>