Commonwealth v. Young
Supreme Court of Virginia
At the October term 1858 of the Circuit court of Jackson county, the grand jury indicted Henry Young, for that he “ unlawfully and without having a license therefor according to law, on the home farm of Charles Carney, in the said county of Jackson, and within the jurisdiction of the Circuit court for said county, did sell, by retail, wine, ardent spirits, and mixtures thereof, contrary to the form of the statute,” &c; At the May term of the court for 1859 the defendant…
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At the October term 1858 of the Circuit court of Jackson county, the grand jury indicted Henry Young, for that he “ unlawfully and without having a license therefor according to law, on the home farm of Charles Carney, in the said county of Jackson, and within the jurisdiction of the Circuit court for said county, did sell, by retail, wine, ardent spirits, and mixtures thereof, contrary to the form of the statute,” &c; At the May term of the court for 1859 the defendant appeared, and moved the court to quash the indictment ; which motion the court sustained. And thereupon the commonwealth…
1Opinion of the Court
Moncure J.
This is a supersedeas obtained by thecommonwealth to a judgment of the Circuit court of Jackson county quashing an indictment against Henry Young, for that he, “ on the first day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, unlawfully, and without having a license therefor according to law, on the home farm of Charles Carney, in the said county of Jackson, and within the jurisdiction of the Circuit court for said county, did sell, by retail, wine, ardent spirits, and mixtures thereof, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided-, and…
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