State v. . Blauntia
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by defendant from Lyon, J., at June Term, 1915, of Guileoed. Indictment for violation of section 2 of the Search and Seizure Law and for unlawfully having spirituous liquor in possession for purposes of sale, tried on appeal from municipal court. Defendant was convicted and, from judgment on the verdict, appealed to the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
Chapter 44, Public Laws 1913, section 2, makes it unlawful for any person, etc., other than druggists and medical depositories, duly licensed thereto, “to have in possession for purposes of sale any spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors,” and, among other things, makes the having- in one’s possession more than one gallon of liquor at one time, whether in one or more places, prima facie evidence of a violation of the section.
The statute has been directly upheld as a valid enactment, S. v. R. R., 149 N. C., 508; S. v. Wilkerson, 164 N. C., 431; and it has been also held that where it is…
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