Devine v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Mecklenburg county on a prosecution for selling liquor without a license.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
This is a prosecution by warrant against the defendant for selling ardent spirits, without having obtained a license therefor, to Jack Wallace, Walter Willis, and to other persons unknown.-
Upon the calling of the case in the circuit court, to which it had been appealed, the accused moved the court to require the prosecuting attorney to elect for which of the offences charged in the warrant he would prosecute, and he elected to prosecute for the sale alleged to have been made to Jack Wallace.
The commonwealth introduced evidence that the accused, who was a merchant in Chase City, had been…
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