State v. Williams

Defendant was indicted for unlawfully selling liquor in less quantity than three gallons, without taking out or having a dramshop keeper’s license. On the trial the state proved that defendant sold about a gill of whisky within one year next before the finding of the indictment. It was admitted that he had a merchant’s license at the time of said sale. It was shown by defendant that he owned and kept, in addition to the liquor sold, a stock of drugs, patent medicines, stationery, tobacco, cigars; wall paper, and notions, and that .he kept in his employ a registered pharmacist. The court…