Sanderlin v. State
Tennessee Supreme Court
The grand jury of Shelby county, at the June term of the circuit court, 1840, produced in court, an indictment against-Demsey Sanderlin, which was in the following words: Shelby County, \ Circuit Court,» June Term, 1840. “The grand jurors for the State of Tennessee, elected, impan-nelled, sworn, and charged to enquire for the body of the county aforesaid, upon their oaths, present, that Demsey Sanderlin, late of said county, laborer, on the 4th day of June, one thousand…
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The grand jury of Shelby county, at the June term of the circuit court, 1840, produced in court, an indictment against-Demsey Sanderlin, which was in the following words: Shelby County, \ Circuit Court,» June Term, 1840. “The grand jurors for the State of Tennessee, elected, impan-nelled, sworn, and charged to enquire for the body of the county aforesaid, upon their oaths, present, that Demsey Sanderlin, late of said county, laborer, on the 4th day of June, one thousand eight hundred and forty, with force and arms, unlawfully did keep a tippling house, and then and there did vend and retail…
1Opinion of the CourtGReen, J.
This is an indictment for selling ‘spiritous liquors by the quart, intended to be drank on the premises. There was evidence that the plaintiff in error occupied the front room of the house as a grocery and sold liquors by the quart, which were drank in the back room, and in the yard, and that he furnished the persons who drank it with vessels, glasses, &c.
The court charged the jury “that if the defendant sold the spirits by the quart, with the intent that the purchaser should drink the same on the lot where the grocery was situated, he would be as guilty as if he had permittted it to be drank…
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