State v. Keith
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Logan Circuit Court. Hon. J. H. Rogers, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. Indictment for selling liquor without license. The opinion states the case. The indictment was under section 5 of the Act of 1879* and follows the language of the statute.
1Opinion of the CourtEnglish, C. J.
The indictment charged that J. A. Keith* on the fifteenth day of July, 1880, in Logan county, unlawfully did sell to one Charles Sharp, one pint of ardent liquor, without the owner or owners thereof having previously procured a license from the County Court of said county* authorizing such sale, against the peace, &c.
The Court sustained a demurrer to the indictment, and the State appealed.
All the allegations of the indictment may be true, and yet appellee guilty of no offense. It is not alleged that he sold the liquor without license, and if he had license, no matter whether the owner of the…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Cloud v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1880
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