State v. Starlight Club
Utah Supreme Court
1Opinion of the Court
HENRIOD, Chief Justice:
Appeal from three convictions after jury verdicts in consolidated cases for trial, each case having to do with selling liquor in vio lation of Title 32-7-1, Utah Code Annotated 1953. 1
No one contends that there was insufficiency of evidence.
Defendant does urge, however, that under the circumstances of this case, the sentence revoking defendant’s nonprofit corporate charter, 2 and the imposition of the maximum $2,500 fine in each case, aggregating $7,500, offends 1) against Art. I, Sec. 9, Utah Constitution, having to do with interdiction against excessive fines, 3 2)…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Kent Club v. TorontoUtah Supreme Court · 1957
- Russell v. StateWyoming Supreme Court · 1911
- Disabled American Veterans' Club, Chapter No. 8 v. TorontoUtah Supreme Court · 1961
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