Brame v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Selling Liquor Without a License. Appeal from Marengo Circuit Court. Heard, before Hou. John C. Anderson. Tlie defendant was indicted and convicted for unlawfully selling liqnor witbin eight miles of the courthouse in Marengo county, Alabama.
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Selling Liquor Without a License. Appeal from Marengo Circuit Court. Heard, before Hou. John C. Anderson. Tlie defendant was indicted and convicted for unlawfully selling liqnor witbin eight miles of the courthouse in Marengo county, Alabama. On the trial it was admitted that the defendant was engaged in the business of retailing spirituous, vinous or malt liquors within the corporate limits of the town of Linden; that said defendant was conducting said business under a state and county license issued to him by the judge of probate of Márengo county; that said license was valid, unless the…
1Opinion of the CourtDenson, J.
— During the session of 1880-81, of the General Assembly, ah act was passed which prohibited the sale, giving away, or otherwise disposing of vinous, spirituous, or malt liquors, or intoxicating bitters at or within certain localities in the state, which were particularly designated in the act. The locality involved in this case Avas designated in the act as íoIIoavs : “At or Avithin eight miles of the courthouse in the toAvn of Linden, Marengo county.” The act' embraced numerous localities in different parts of the state and is of that *631character of legislation which is generally known in…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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