Ulmer v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before Hon. George H. Craig. The appellant, Ulmer, was convicted under an indictment found in November, 1878, which charged that before the finding thereof, he “ sold vinous, or spirituous liquors without license and contrary to law, against the peace,” &e.
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Appeal from Circuit Court of Dallas. Tried before Hon. George H. Craig. The appellant, Ulmer, was convicted under an indictment found in November, 1878, which charged that before the finding thereof, he “ sold vinous, or spirituous liquors without license and contrary to law, against the peace,” &e. The evidence showed that within twelve months before the finding of the indictment, and in one mile of the town of Orrville, in Dallas county, the “ defendant, in the fall of 1878, sold all kinds of liquor in a temporary bar-room,” on the fair grounds, while a fair Aims being held. The defendant…
1Opinion of the CourtStone, J.
Section 3618 of the Revised Code is, in substance, what had been statutory law in this State for many years, except that one provision as to its punishment was then of recent enactment. — Code of 1852, sections 1058,1059, 3280; Stone & Shepherd’s Penal Code, section 76; Clay’s Dig. 554, section 4. As found in the Revised Code, the section provides that if an unlicensed retailer “ sells vinous or spirituous liquors of any kind in quantities less than one quart, or by the quart or less quantity, to any person of known intemperate habits, or in any quantity if the same is drunk on or about his…
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