State v. Grier
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Indictment (No. 9, June Term, 1913) for the violation of Chapter 139, Volume 27, Laws of Delaware, 340, known as the “Hazel Law”, by bringing as agent of a certain liquor dealer in the City of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, into local option territory within the State of Delaware, to wit, Sussex County, two quarts of spirituous liquor, to wit, whisky, purchased by a resident of said county. Case heard upon agreed statement of facts.
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Indictment (No. 9, June Term, 1913) for the violation of Chapter 139, Volume 27, Laws of Delaware, 340, known as the “Hazel Law”, by bringing as agent of a certain liquor dealer in the City of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, into local option territory within the State of Delaware, to wit, Sussex County, two quarts of spirituous liquor, to wit, whisky, purchased by a resident of said county. Case heard upon agreed statement of facts. (See State v. Van Winkle, post, also 88 Atl. 807.) Before delivering the opinion, the court made the following preliminary statement:
1Opinion of the Court 1
Pennewill, C. J.:
The court is prepared to announce its decision upon the questions raised in the above stated case and argued at the last term, but before reading the opinion I wish to say, speaking for every member of the court, that nothing which may have been said by any one outside of this room, or since the argument, has had the slightest influence upon us in reaching our decision. It may be entirely unnecessary to make this statement, and it would not be made except for the newspaper controversy that has been recently engaged in respecting this case.
*328We wish to say that our decision was…
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