People v. Talbot
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before judgment from Berrien; Coolidge, J. Timothy Talbot was convicted of keeping his saloon open on Sunday. Respondent was convicted of keeping a saloon open on Sunday. He lived over his saloon. There was a room back of the bar-room. From this room a pair of stairs led up to his living rooms. Swinging doors opened from this room into the saloon.
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Exceptions before judgment from Berrien; Coolidge, J. Timothy Talbot was convicted of keeping his saloon open on Sunday. Respondent was convicted of keeping a saloon open on Sunday. He lived over his saloon. There was a room back of the bar-room. From this room a pair of stairs led up to his living rooms. Swinging doors opened from this room into the saloon. On the Sunday in question the officers went to the back door; were admitted; two persons were sitting at a table; two glasses on the table; the. doors into the saloon were open, and one of the respondent’s bartenders was behind the bar.…
1Opinion of the CourtGrant, C. J.
(after stating the facts). 1. The second count* — the one upon which respondent was convicted — charged him with keeping a saloon, “the same being a place where spirituous, intoxicating, malt, brewed,' and fermented liquors were sold and kept for sale; such saloon not being a drug-store.” Objection was made to a conviction under this count, because it did not state that liquors were kept for sale either at wholesale or retail. The proposition deserves no discussion. The statute provides that all saloons where any such liquors are sold or kept for sale, either at wholesale or retail, shall be…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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