State v. . Langston
Supreme Court of North Carolina
CRIMINAL ACTION commenced before the mayor of a city, and heard on appeal at Fall Term, 1882, of Wayne Superior Court, before MacRae, J.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendant was brought before the mayor of the city of Goldsboro, on his warrant, charged with violating an ordinance of the city which forbids any person, having license, to sell spirituous liquors on the Sabbath, and imposes a fine of twenty dollars therefor. ,He was convicted on the trial, and appealed to the superior court, where the action was dismissed for want of jurisdiction in the mayor, and thence the appeal by the solicitor for the state brings the cause to this court.
The general assembly, at its session of 1876-77, passed an act which went into effect on January 11, 1877, the…
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