Allen v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
This was an indictment for selling spirituous liquors found and presented in tbe circuit of Walworth county. As the several points in judgment arise from, and are based upon.objections taken to tbe form or substance of tbe indictment, it is given at length as follows: ■ ■ ! ■ “ State of Wisconsin, Walworth county, ss: At a term of tbe Circuit Court in and-for tbe county of-Walworth, in tbe state of Wisconsin, begun and beld at tbe court-house in Elkhorn, in said county, on…
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This was an indictment for selling spirituous liquors found and presented in tbe circuit of Walworth county. As the several points in judgment arise from, and are based upon.objections taken to tbe form or substance of tbe indictment, it is given at length as follows: ■ ■ ! ■ “ State of Wisconsin, Walworth county, ss: At a term of tbe Circuit Court in and-for tbe county of-Walworth, in tbe state of Wisconsin, begun and beld at tbe court-house in Elkhorn, in said county, on the third Monday in’ May (being'the twenty-first day thereof), in tbe year of our Lord one thousand eight ■ hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Cole, J.
At a term of the Circuit Court, for the county of Walworth, begun and held at the court-house in said county, on the 21st day of May, 1855, the plaintiff in error was indicted for selling spirituous liquors without á license, under section 5 of chapter 162 of the Session Laws of 1851.
A demurrer was interposed to the indictment, assigning several causes of demurrrer, which will be subsequently noticed.
The Circuit Court, after permitting the caption of. the indictment to be amended, so as to obviate one objection which had been taken to it, overruled the demurrer. The…
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