State v. Smokey's Steakhouse, Inc.

VANDE WALLE, Justice.

Smokey’s Steakhouse, Inc., appealed from a judgment of conviction for allowing a person under the age of twenty-one to remain on premises where alcoholic beverages were being sold. We affirm.

Smokey’s is a restaurant and bar located in West Fargo. During an inspection of the premises, members of the West Fargo Police Department found Patricia Ingberg and Nicole Huether, both age twenty, in separate parts of the bar portion of the business. The women were arrested for being in a bar while underage. A complaint was later filed against Smokey’s as the liquor licensee.

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