Woods v. Commonwealth

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This presentment charges that David Woods and two others, “did, on the 9th day of April, 1839, in the county, &c. then and there presume to keep a tippling house, by then and there selling ardent spirits by the retail, (viz: whiskey, brandy, and gin,) without first having obtained a license to keep a tavern.”

The defendants having been duly served with process, and not appearing, a judgment was rendered against them by default, and without a jury, for sixty dollars, being the amount of the accumulated penalty for keeping a tippling house, tinder…