State v. Lowry
Indiana Supreme Court
No. 20,719. From Criminal Court of Marion County (34,819); James M. Leathers, Special Judge. No. 20,646. From Madison Circuit Court; John F. McClure, Judge. Prosecutions by the State of Indiana against William EL Lowry and John M. Lewis. From judgments acquitting Lowry and convicting Lewis, the State and Lewis, respectively, appeal. Not sustained.
1Opinion of the CourtGillett, C. J.
—The defendants below, Lowry and Lewis, were respectively charged with violating an act of the General Assembly, approved February 28, 1905, known as the anti-cigarette law. Acts 1905, p. 82. Although the eases are wholly unrelated in their facts, the law questions involved are such that the appeals may advantageously be considered together.
In the first of said cases it appears that Lowry caused 1,000 cigarettes to be shipped to him, for his personal use, by a dealer in Louisville, Kentucky. The shipment was made by the Adams Express Company, a common carrier of goods for hire by express. The…
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