State v. Graeter

The defendant was indicted for retailing spirituous liquors, without license, in the borough of Vincennes. The charge in the indictment is, that the defendant, not being licensed by the president and trustees of the borough of Vin-cennes, according to law, to sell spirituous liqours within the bounds of said borough, did unlawfully sell-, &e. The Court quashed the indictment.

By the 17th section of the act entitled “ An act respecting the borough of Vincennes,” approved January the 27th, 1836, L. Laws, 1836, p. 31, it is declared that it shall not be lawful for any person within the bounds of…