The People v. . Meyers
New York Court of Appeals
Appeal by the defendant, John M. Meyers, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Department, affirming a conviction of defendant for selling liquor without a license. The defendant, John M. Meyers, was indicted on January 10, 1884, by the grand jury of the city and county of New York, for a violation of the Excise Law, viz., selling liquor without a license.
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Appeal by the defendant, John M. Meyers, from a judgment of the General Term of the Supreme Court in the First Department, affirming a conviction of defendant for selling liquor without a license. The defendant, John M. Meyers, was indicted on January 10, 1884, by the grand jury of the city and county of New York, for a violation of the Excise Law, viz., selling liquor without a license. On January 21, 1884, he was tried in the Court of General Sessions, city and county of New York, before Hon. Henry A. Gildersleeve, judge of said court, and a jury, and was convicted of the misdemeanor and…
1Opinion of the CourtAndrews, J.
The question in this case turns upon the construction of section 4 of chapter 549 of the Laws of 1873 entitled “ An act to amend an act, entitled ‘ An act regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors’ passed April 11th, 1870, and the act entitled, ‘An act to suppress intemperance, and to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors ’ passed April 16th, 1857.”
That section is as follows: “ Any conviction for the violation of any provision of this act, or of the act hereby amended, by any person or persons licensed, or at any place licensed as herein provided, shall forfeit, and annul such license.…
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