Nelson v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Eeeoe to review a judgment of the circuit court for Jackson county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff in error was convicted of violating sec. 1557, Stats. 1898. The charge against him was that he unlawfully sold, vended, dealt, and trafficked in intoxicating liquor, in that he gave away such liquor to one John Swanson who was at the time thereof a minor.
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Eeeoe to review a judgment of the circuit court for Jackson county: James O’Neill, Circuit Judge. Plaintiff in error was convicted of violating sec. 1557, Stats. 1898. The charge against him was that he unlawfully sold, vended, dealt, and trafficked in intoxicating liquor, in that he gave away such liquor to one John Swanson who was at the time thereof a minor. The evidence was to the effect that the accused, Thomas Nelson, was a licensed dealer in intoxicating liquor, and that Swanson, a minor as alleged, drank such liquor obtained of Nelson at his bar; that Swanson entered Nelson's saloon…
1Opinion of the CourtMaeshall, J.
The only material question sufficiently presented by the record to permit us to consider it is, Did the trial court err in instructing the jury, in effect, that if an adult accompanied by a minor applies to a dealer in intoxicating liquor at his saloon for such liquor, to be drank by him and his associate at his expense, and the dealer furnishes it for that purpose, and it is drank by the two, the adult treating his companion, the vendor is guilty of dealing or trafficking in intoxicating liquor with a minor, within the meaning of sec. 1557, Stats. 1898, which says that “ any keeper Of any…
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