State v. Hughes
West Virginia Supreme Court
Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: The grand jury of Taylor county on the 27th day of July, 1881, presented Thomas Hughes for unlawfully and without a State license 'selling, offering and exposing for sale at retail in December, 1880, spirituous liquors, wine, porter, ale, beer and drinks of like nature to Edward L. Gelliousen.
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Green, Judge, furnishes the following statement of the case: The grand jury of Taylor county on the 27th day of July, 1881, presented Thomas Hughes for unlawfully and without a State license 'selling, offering and exposing for sale at retail in December, 1880, spirituous liquors, wine, porter, ale, beer and drinks of like nature to Edward L. Gelliousen. The defendant demurred to the presentment, but it being in proper form the demurrer was overruled, and the defendant then moved to quash the presentment, but there being no ground for quashing the same the court overruled this motion; and…
1Opinion of the Court
Giieen, Judge:
Bill of exceptions No. 2 as this record is presented to us constitutes no part of the record, as the signature of the judge is not appended to it. This was probably the result of a clerical omission, but as the result reached would be the same, whether it were treated as a part of the record or not, we have concluded to treat the absence of the signature to it as a clerical error, this mode of regarding it being most favorable to the plaintiff' in error, for the reasons which we have already stated. So considered the point of law presented by the record is, whether our…
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