State v. Winkelmeier

The defendant was indicted for selling liquor on Sunday. The evidence was that he sold beer, but did not sell distilled liquors. He was found guilty and fined, and appealed to this court. He claims a right to keep open his beer-house and sell beer on Sunday, under a supposed permission by the corporate authorities of the city of St. Louis. The General Assembly, by an act approved March 4, 1857, enacted “ that the corporate authorities of the different cities in the county *104of St. Louis shall have tlie power, whenever a majority of the legal voters of the respective cities in said county…