Montana Code Annotated 2003

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     16-6-205. Sufficiency of evidence. In any prosecution under this code for the sale or keeping for sale or other disposal of alcoholic beverages or the having, keeping, giving, purchasing, or consuming of alcoholic beverages, it shall not be necessary that any witness should depose to the precise description or quantity of the alcoholic beverages sold, disposed of, kept, had, given, purchased, or consumed or the precise consideration (if any) received therefor or to the fact of the sale or other disposal having taken place with his participation or to his own personal or certain knowledge; but conviction may be based upon circumstantial evidence reasonably tending to establish the guilt of the accused beyond a reasonable doubt.

     History: En. Sec. 82, Ch. 105, L. 1933; re-en. Sec. 2815.141, R.C.M. 1935; Sec. 4-216, R.C.M. 1947; amd. and redes. by Sec. 33, Ch. 387, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, .

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