Bryant v. State

Appeal from Green Circuit Court. Felix G. Taylor, Judge. John Bryant was tried and convicted before a justice of the peace on an information filed by the prosecuting attorney, alleging that, being the owner of the old Baird Saloon building in the town of Paragould, in the county of Greene and state of Arkansas, he “did unlawfully sell and give away, and cause to be sold and given away, and keep for sale and to be given away, and allow to be kept for sale and to be given away, in said building, ardent, vinous, malt, fermented, and intoxicating liquors, without first having obtained a license,”…