People v. Toynbee
New York Supreme Court
THE first of these cases came before the court on an appeal from a court of special sessions in the city of Brooklyn, and the other by certiorari to a .court of special sessions of the county of Dutchess, in which courts the defendants were severally convicted of violations of the act of the legislature entitled “An act for the prevention of intemperance, pauperism and crime,” passed April 9,1855, and usually known as the “ Prohibitory Liquor Law.” (Laws of 1855, p. 340,)
1Opinion of the CourtS. B. Strong, J.
This cause [The People v. Toynbee] comes before us on an appeal by the defendant from a judgment rendered against him by a police justice of the city of Brooklyn, for the alleged violation of the statute for the “ prevention of intemperance, pauperism and crime,” commonly called the prohibitory act. The complaint was preferred before the justice by a policeman, pursuant to the 12th section of the statute. It stated, *206in substance, that on the 17th of July, 1855, the defendant sold, and kept for sale, and had in his possession with intent to sell, in Montague street in the third ward of said…
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