Vines v. State
Wyoming Supreme Court
Error to the District Court, Sheridan County; HoN. Rodt eric N. Matson, Judge. The plaintiff in error, James Vines, was convicted of selling intoxicating liquors without a license and brought error. The material facts are stated in the opinion.
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Error to the District Court, Sheridan County; HoN. Rodt eric N. Matson, Judge. The plaintiff in error, James Vines, was convicted of selling intoxicating liquors without a license and brought error. The material facts are stated in the opinion. The failure to state in the information a definite place in the county where the alleged unlawful sale or sales were made, or whether the sale or sales were by wholesale or retail, or whether the liquor was sold to be drunk on the premises, or otherwise, or the price for which the same was sold, renders the information defective, and the motion to…
1Opinion of the Court
Beard, Chief Justice.
In this case the county and prosecuting attorney of Sheridan county filed in the district court of that county an information charging the plaintiff in error, James Vines, with selling intoxicating liquor without a license. The information contained fifteen counts, each count charging a separate and distinct sale. He was tried and convicted on ten counts and fined in the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars on each of said ten counts, and he brings the case here on error.
The first count of the information is as follows: “Comes now Chas. A. Kutcher, County and Prosecuting…
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