People v. Taylor

The respondent was convicted of keeping a saloon open on Sunday. But two questions need be considered. The first relates to the sufficiency of the information, and the second as to whether the defense offered any testimony which fairly tends to sustain the claim which is made that the saloon was opened under the stress of overruling necessity.

The information failed to state that the saloon was not a drug store. Section 2283 e, 3 How. Stat., provides that—

‘ ‘ All saloons, restaurants, bars, in taverns or elsewhere, and all other places, except .drug stores, where any of the liquors mentioned…