State v. O'Conner

On Exceptions, from Nisi Prius, Rice, J., presiding. This was an indictment against the respondent under the statute of 1858, as a common seller of intoxicating liquors. The testimony offered by the government tended to prove more than six distinct sales of intoxicating liquors by the respondent. The presiding Judge instructed the jury, that under our present statutes, no particular number of sales was necessary to be proved to constitute a common seller; but that the jury must be satisfied, from the evidence, that selling intoxicating liquors was her common and ordinary business, and they…