Glover v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for selling liquor. Before Judge Martin. Irwin superior court. September 7, 1906. The plaintiff in error was tried for the offense of selling liquor without a license, under an indictment framed upon a special .statute approved August 10, 1906, entitled “An act fixing the .annual license fee for retailing or vending spirituous, intoxicating, -or malt liquors in Irwin county at twenty thousand dollars, and to provide a penalty for violating the same, and for other…
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Indictment for selling liquor. Before Judge Martin. Irwin superior court. September 7, 1906. The plaintiff in error was tried for the offense of selling liquor without a license, under an indictment framed upon a special .statute approved August 10, 1906, entitled “An act fixing the .annual license fee for retailing or vending spirituous, intoxicating, -or malt liquors in Irwin county at twenty thousand dollars, and to provide a penalty for violating the same, and for other purposes.” Acts of 1906, p. 430. This act provided that from and after its passage, “'the annual license fee to retail…
1Opinion of the CourtEvans, J.
(After stating the facts.) 1. The first and second .grounds of the demurrer are that the indictment sets forth no offense, and fails to allege that the sale of intoxicating liquor was by retail or in a quantity less than a quart. The indictment charged the offense in the language of the local act fixing the license fee for retailing or vending spirituous, intoxicating, or malt liquors in Irwin county, and fixing a penalty for violating the same. If that local act is not unconstitutional for any of the reasons assigned in the demurrer or the bill of exceptions, then an indictment which charges…
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