State v. Heisserer

The defendant, indicted for selling-liquor without license, interposed his plea in abatement to the jurisdiction of the court, alleging that the act for which he was indicted was done under the authority of a license granted by the proper authorities of the town of Commerce and that certain acts of the legislature gave said town full and exclusive authority to grant licenses-in that behalf, and that the circuit court had no jurisdiction of the matter. The truth of this plea it seems was-proved to the satisfaction of the court, the defendant discharged, and the state comes here on error.

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