Weil v. State

The appellants were indicted in the circuit court of Marengo, for violation of the Revenue Law of 1868. The allegation of the indictment is, that without license, they engaged in, and carried on the business of wholesale dealers in spirituous or vinous liquors. On the trial, but one witness was introduced, and he proved that the defendants were engaged in the business of selling goods and dealing in general merchandise, as merchants in the city of Demopolis, a place of less than five thousand inhabitants. In their store they had dry goods, groceries for family use, whiskey, and a general…