Legal Opinion

Lebkovitz v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided December 8, 1887No. 14,041Published

From the Marion Criminal Court.

1Opinion

*31On Petition for a Rehearing.

Elliott, J.

A petition fora rehearing has been filed, and the questions presented by it elaborately argued by the attorney general, and, while we have no doubt at all that our former opinion is right, we have thought it best to again discuss some of the questions presented by the record.

We understand it to be an elementary principle that “ A single instance of selling constitutes the offence, and a person may commit any number of offences in a single day or as to one purchaser.” ' Bishop Statutory Crimes, section 1016.

The offence of selling on a day forbidden by law…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. In re RichardsonU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1843
  2. Gibson v. KeyesIndiana Supreme Court · 1887

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