Reynolds v. People

Hallett, O. J.

The plaintiff in error was found guilty of a violation of the license law in respect to selling spirituous liquors. The sale was made at and within the military reservation known as Port Lyon, and it is claimed that the conviction is erroneous upon the ground that the law under which it was had wras not, at the time of the sale, operative within that reservation. This theory is founded upon the seventeenth paragraph of section eight, article one of the constitution, by which congress is invested with exclusive legislative authority “over all places purchased by the consent of…