Legal Opinion

State ex rel. Stranahan v. District Court

Montana Supreme Court

Decided December 18, 1920No. 4,762PublishedCited by 11 opinions

Original application for writ of supervisory control to the District Court of the Eighteenth Judicial District, and F. E. Carleton, Judge thereof, to annul an order in effect declaring Chapter 175, Laws of 1917, inoperative.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Hurly

An information was duly filed in the district court of Hill county charging Henry Dees, Ted Oltsvig and Paul Glenn with the crime of unlawfully introducing intoxicating liquors (whisky and beer) into the state of Montana on or about June 14, 1920. To this information the defendants entered pleas of not guilty, and upon the twenty-first day of September were placed upon trial. After a jury had been impaneled and sworn, the defendants objected to the introduction of any testimony upon the ground that the information fails to state a public offense,- the point being that, our law against the…

2Cases cited10 opinions

  1. Ex Parte SieboldSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
  2. Reid v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
  3. Fox v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1847
  4. National Prohibition CasesSupreme Court of the United States · 1920
  5. Reid v. ColoradoSupreme Court of the United States · 1902

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3Cited by11 opinions

  1. Brady v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1928
  2. State v. GauthierSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1922
  3. State v. JewettWashington Supreme Court · 1922
  4. State v. CerianiSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1921
  5. State v. MooreIdaho Supreme Court · 1922

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