Brubaker v. State

Appellant was tried and convicted under the seventeenth section of the act of March 17th, 1875, 1 R. S. 1876, p. 869.

That section provides, that “Every place, house, arbor, room or shed, wherein spiritous, vinous or malt liquors are sold, bartered, or given away, or suffered to be drank, if kept in a disorderly manner, shall be deemed a common nuisance, and the keeper thereof, upon conviction, shall forfeit his license and be fined in any sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars,” etc.

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