State v. Engleman

Citations

• 66 Kan. 340
• 71 P. 859

Syllabus

<p>SYLLABUS BY THE COURT.</p> <p>Intoxicating Liquors — Nuisance—Improper Testimony. A party was charged by information with having, on or about the 16th day of May, 1901, maintained a common nuisance under the prohibitory liquor law of 1901, which went into effect on March 1 of that year (Gen. Stat. 1901, § 2193). The court permitted testimony to go to the jury tending to show that several years prior to March 1, 1901, persons who were boisterous and disorderly, and who used vulgar and obscene language, were accustomed to congregate on the defendant’s premises, to the disturbance of persons in the vicinity. Held, that such testimony was improperly admitted.</p>