Harrison v. State

The plaintiff in error is a distiller of whisky. He was indicted for selling liquor in violation of Section 1, Chapter 167, of the Acts of 1887. After a trial he was found guilty, and a judgment was entered subjecting him to a fine of fifty dollars and imprisonment in the county jail for sixty days. • Erom this judgment he has appealed, and insists that its effect is to deprive him of the protection of an exception found in the second section of that Act.

In 1877 the Legislature passed an Act entitled: “An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors near institutions of learning.” Acts…