State v. Waltz
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Muscatine District Qour-t. — Hon. W. P. Brannan, Judge. Defendant was indicted, for the offense of keeping a nuisance by maintaining a saloon for the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors. A demurrer to the indictment was sustained, and defendant discharged. The state appeals. •
1Opinion of the CourtBeck, J.
-I. The parts of the indictment necessary to be set out here are in the following language: “The grand jury of the county of Muscatine, in the name and by the authority of the state of Iowa, accuse P. J. Waltz of the crime of nuisance, committed as follows: The said P. J. Waltz, on the tenth day of November, A. D. 1886, in the county aforesaid, wilfully and unlawfully did use a certain building, known as a ‘saloon,’ for the purpose of selling therein, and therein did sell, intoxicating liquor of the kind prohibited by law, to-wit, whisky, brandy, rum, gin, ale, wine and beer, to divers…
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