State v. Brown

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gummere, Chief Justice.

Brown, tbe defendant, was convicted in the Burlington Quarter Sessions upon an indictment charging him with the habitual sale of liquor contrary to law. The present writ of error challenges the validity of that conviction, and the case comes up for consideration under the one hundred and thirty-sixth section of the Criminal Procedure act.

The proofs showed that the defendant had been granted a wholesale liquor license by the excise board of the city of Burlington, authorizing him to carry on business under that license at bios. 30…