Legg v. State

The plaintiff in error, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, was convicted on a charge of maintaining a public nuisance by operating the Baltimore Hotel, said hotel being a place where spirituous, vinous, and malt liquors, which contain as much as one-half of 1 per cent, alcohol, measured by volume, and which is capable of being used as a beverage, is manufactured, sold, bartered, given away, and otherwise furnished, in violation of the prohibitory laws of the state, and was sentenced to pay a fine of $500 and costs and be imprisoned in the county jail of Pottawatomie county for a pe…