State v. Green
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Benet, J., Spartanburg, October, 1900. Indictment against Bloom Green for selling liquors, and maintaining a nuisance by keeping whiskey for sale'. From verdict of guilty and sentence thereon, defendant appeals on following exceptions, alleging that the Court erred': “I. In allowing the witness, Henry Wilson, 'to testify, over defendant’s objection, that he purchased whiskey from the defendant on other days than the one named in the indictment, to wit: 8th day of…
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Before Benet, J., Spartanburg, October, 1900. Indictment against Bloom Green for selling liquors, and maintaining a nuisance by keeping whiskey for sale'. From verdict of guilty and sentence thereon, defendant appeals on following exceptions, alleging that the Court erred': “I. In allowing the witness, Henry Wilson, 'to testify, over defendant’s objection, that he purchased whiskey from the defendant on other days than the one named in the indictment, to wit: 8th day of April. “II. In refusing to strike out the testimony of the witness, Henry Wilson, that he bought whiskey of the defendant,…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the 'Court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
The defendant was indicted, tried and convicted under an indictment containing three counts, for violating the dispensary law. In the first count, the defendant was charged with selling spirituous liquors, on the 8th of April, 1900, to certain persons named in that count. In the second count, the defendant was charged with unlawfully keeping and maintaining a nuisance, on the 8th day of April, 1900, and on divers other days, both before and since that day up to the taking of this inquisition, by keeping a place where liquors…
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