State v. Corcoran
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Case certified from district court for Sibley county, Cadwell, J. John Corcoran and others were indicted for selling liquor without a license. A demurrer to the indictment having been interposed by defendants, it was overruled and the cause certified to the supreme court.
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Case certified from district court for Sibley county, Cadwell, J. John Corcoran and others were indicted for selling liquor without a license. A demurrer to the indictment having been interposed by defendants, it was overruled and the cause certified to the supreme court. The supreme court of Michigan, construing the law of that state, Laws 1887, Act No. 313, has held an indictment to be bad when it does not negative the proviso by which druggists, selling liquor in response to a physician’s prescription, are not amenable to prosecution for selling liquor without a license. People v. Haas, 79…
1Opinion of the CourtStart, C. J.
The defendants were indicted for selling intoxicating liquors without a license. The material part of the indictment is in these words:
“The said John Corcoran, John Welch, and Thomas Duffy, on the 4th day of July, 1896, at the town of Faxon, in the county of Sibley and state of Minnesota, did unlawfully and feloniously sell and dispose of to one Michael Orahan one half pint of intoxicating liquor, to wit, lager beer of the value of five cents, — they, the said John Corcoran, John Welch, and Thomas Duffy, then and there not having a license to sell and dispose of said intoxicating liquors, —…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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