Legal Opinion

State v. Thornburn

Supreme Court of Vermont

Decided August 27, 1902Published

Ineormation for selling cider contrary to law. Plea, not guilty. The respondent was adjudged guilty on facts conceded at the December Term, 1901, Windsor County, Stafford, J., presiding. The respondent excepted.

1Opinion of the CourtTyler, J.

Information for selling cider without authority. The State offered to prove, and the respondent admitted ten sales of fermented cider, and the court thereupon adjudged the respondent guilty of ten offenses, but allowed exceptions and suspended sentence. In this court the respondent concedes that the judgment below was in accordance with State v. Waite, 72 Vt. 108, 47 Atl. 397, but contends that the decision should be overruled.

In State v. Waite it was held that, as V. S. 446,0 classified fermented cider with intoxicating liquors, the permission given in section 4463 to sell cider, related to…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. State v. WaiteSupreme Court of Vermont · 1900

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