State v. . Bryson
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for misdemeanor tried at November Special Term, 1883, of New HANOVER Criminal Court, before Meares, J. The defendant is charged with selling liquor on Sunday in violation of The Code, §1117. There was a verdict of guilty, and the defendant appealed from the judgment pronounced.
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendant, indicted under the act of January 11th, 1877 (The Code, §1117), on his trial before the jury, was found guilty of the offence of selling intoxicating liquors without the prescription of a physician and not for medical purposes, on the 10th day of June, 1883, the said day being Sunday as charged in the bill. Upon the trial it was proved that the defendant, a licensed retailer of spirituous liquors, in the city of Wilmington, sold two drinks of whiskey to the witness, one for himself and one for his companion, on a Sunday either in the month of June or July, 1883, but on which…
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