State v. Rawlings
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — Hon. W. N. Evans, Special Judge. (1) The information is fatally defective in failing to allege that the defendant was engaged in running an “order house” or was acting as an agent for such house or in that capacity. State v. Price, 229 Mo. 670. (2) The information is fatally defective in failing to allege that the person for whom defendant delivered the liquor was not authorized by law to deal in intoxicating liquors.
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Appeal from Lawrence Circuit Court. — Hon. W. N. Evans, Special Judge. (1) The information is fatally defective in failing to allege that the defendant was engaged in running an “order house” or was acting as an agent for such house or in that capacity. State v. Price, 229 Mo. 670. (2) The information is fatally defective in failing to allege that the person for whom defendant delivered the liquor was not authorized by law to deal in intoxicating liquors. State v. Price, 229 Mo. 670; Laws 1907, pp. 231-232. (2) The court erred in overruling defendant’s motion to quash the information in this…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
The defendant prosecutes this appeal from a judgment imposing upon him a fine of $300, for violating Laws of 1907, page 232 (now sections 7226 to 7229, R. S. 1909), regulating the keeping, *554storing and delivery of intoxicating liquors in counties having adopted the Local Option Law.
The evidence shows that the defendant was running a tailor shop in the city of Mt. Vernon, in Lawrence county, on the first day of December, 1909', and desiring some intoxicating liquor, went to a butcher shop where one Will Williams was employed and asked Williams for the address of certain persons in Springfield,…
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