State v. Jamison
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from Crawford Circuit Court. This was an indictment for selling liquor without a license. Defendant moved to quash the indictment, and made an order of the County Court of Crawford county a part of the motion.
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Appeal from Crawford Circuit Court. This was an indictment for selling liquor without a license. Defendant moved to quash the indictment, and made an order of the County Court of Crawford county a part of the motion. Said order is as follows : “ Upon the presentation of a petition, signed by a majority of the taxable inhabitants of this municipal township, to-wit, the township of Meramec, in Crawford county, signed by one hundred and eight, remonstrating against the County Court granting any dram-shop license for said township within the year next succeeding this, the presentation of said…
1Opinion of the CourtLeonard, Judge
There is a sufficient bill of exceptions here, although very informally drawn. The constitutionality of the act of 1st March, 1851, upon which the case was determined in the court below, is not involved in the record, and of course we express no opinion upon it. The indictment is sufficient, and it is no defence that the County Court improperly refused the defendant a license when he applied for it. It is the granted license that justifies a party in carrying on the business of a a “dram-shop keeper,” and therefore, even although the County Court ought to have granted it notwithstanding the…
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