State v. Gorham
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
On exceptions. Indictment for being a common seller of intoxicating liquors, from April first, 1874, till the finding of the indictment at the September term following; also an indictment for keeping a drinking, house and tippling shop ; two cases covering the same time considered together. Each indictment charged a former conviction and each was supported by similar evidence.
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On exceptions. Indictment for being a common seller of intoxicating liquors, from April first, 1874, till the finding of the indictment at the September term following; also an indictment for keeping a drinking, house and tippling shop ; two cases covering the same time considered together. Each indictment charged a former conviction and each was supported by similar evidence. The averment of former conviction was in the form following: “And the jurors aforesaid, upon their oath aforesaid, do further present that the said Charles E. Gorham has been once before convicted as a common seller of…
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
The book, admitted in evidence in these cases, was a record of the payments of special licenses. It was not a book of assessments. It is kept by the collector of internal revenue, under tlie requirements of the revenue act of December 24, 1872, (incorporated into the Bevised Statutes of the United States, in *272section 3240,) which provides, “that each collector of internal revenue shall, under regulations of the commissioner of internal revenue, place and keep conspicuously in his office, for public inspection, an alphabetical list of the names of all persons who shall have paid special taxes…
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