Gallovich v. People
Supreme Court of Colorado
Error to Las Animas District Court, Hon. A. C. McChesney, Judge. Mr. Jesse E. Northcutt, for plaintiff in error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bailey
The case is here on writ of error to the District Court of Las Animas County. The defendant was convicted of unlawfully keeping intoxicating liquor in the basement of his restaurant and soft drink parlor. It appears that this was his second conviction, and he was accordingly sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary at hard labor for not less than one year.
Numerous errors have been assigned, but the one chiefly relied upon is that the section under which the defendant was tried and convicted is unconstitutional and therefore void. That portion of the statute involved, Session Laws of…
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