Mehan v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR TO THE RICHLAND CIRCUIT COURT. The defendant was prosecuted before a justice of the peace of Richland county for selling intoxicating liquors without license. The defendant was convicted, and appealed to the circuit court, where he was also convicted.
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ERROR TO THE RICHLAND CIRCUIT COURT. The defendant was prosecuted before a justice of the peace of Richland county for selling intoxicating liquors without license. The defendant was convicted, and appealed to the circuit court, where he was also convicted. The only point presented or decided, arose upon the instruction of the court to the jury, and involved the question whether the prosecution was bound to show, in any manner, that the defendant had no license, or whether on proof of the act of selling the defendant was bound to prove that he had license. The instruction excepted to is…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Smith J.
This and three other cases of the same character came to this court through the appellate course of procedure from the judgment of a justice of the peace of Richland, county, wherein the defendant was found guilty, *671who took an appeal to the circuit court of the same county, wherein he was also found guilty, and judgment accordingly.
The only question arising in this case rests upon the following instruction given by the judge, to the jury, on the trial in the court below, viz : “ That if the jury were satisfied that the said defendant sold intoxicating liquors of the kind…
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