State v. Douglass
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Tama District Court — PIon. L. G. Kinne, Judge. An information was filed before a justice of the peace, in which defendant was accused, in different counts, of 97 offenses against the statute for the suppression of intemperance. Upon a trial to a jury, he was convicted on 48 counts and a separate judgment imposing a fine was pronounced against him upon each of said counts. lie appealed to the district court from 47 of said judgments.
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Appeal from Tama District Court — PIon. L. G. Kinne, Judge. An information was filed before a justice of the peace, in which defendant was accused, in different counts, of 97 offenses against the statute for the suppression of intemperance. Upon a trial to a jury, he was convicted on 48 counts and a separate judgment imposing a fine was pronounced against him upon each of said counts. lie appealed to the district court from 47 of said judgments. When the cause came on for trial in the district court, it was stipulated by the parties that, at the time the several sales charged in the…
1Opinion of the CourtReed, J.
Defendant is accused of selling intoxicating liquors to minors, and to intoxicated persons, and to persons who were in the habit of becoming intoxicated; also of selling liquors to be used as beverages. The district court ruled that, as he held a permit from the board of supervisors for the sale of intoxicating liquors for the purposes for which they were allowed to be sold, he could not be tried upon an information for these acts, but that he was answerable only upon indictment for nuisance. The question in the case, then, is whether a person who holds a permit for the sale of intoxicating…
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