City of Union v. Strickland

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Marion.

The record discloses that the defendant was convicted in the municipal Court of Union upon an indictment, or its equivalent, which charged, under separate counts, or the equivalent thereof, the commission of at least two separate-and distinct crimes: (1) The transporting of alcoholic liquor, and (2) the sale of alcoholic liquor. If the act of transporting and the act of selling could lawfully be made to constitute two separate and distinct crimes, the power of the municipal Court to inflict a sentence, upon each count for each…