State v. Grames
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
ON report, from the superior court. Search and seizure process, against the person, on complaint made and sworn to before the judge of the municipal court for the city of Portland, and of the form following : “ L. T. Chase, of Portland, in said county, competent to be a witness in civil suits, on the twenty-ninth day of March, A. D. 1878, in behalf of said state, on oath complains that he believes that on the twenty-eighth day of March in said year, at said Portland,…
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ON report, from the superior court. Search and seizure process, against the person, on complaint made and sworn to before the judge of the municipal court for the city of Portland, and of the form following : “ L. T. Chase, of Portland, in said county, competent to be a witness in civil suits, on the twenty-ninth day of March, A. D. 1878, in behalf of said state, on oath complains that he believes that on the twenty-eighth day of March in said year, at said Portland, intoxicating liquors were kept and deposited by James E. Grames, of Portland, in said county, upon his person, said James E.…
1Opinion of the Court
AupletoN, O. J.
The complaint in this case alleges a finding, by the complainant, a deputy sheriff, of liquors intended for sale in this state in violation of law upon the person of the defendant, a seizure of the same and the subsequent making of a complaint and issuing of a warrant against the defendant, upon which he was arrested.
A traveling rumseller is undoubtedly liable for a single sale. He'may be indicted as a common seller. The questions here presented are whether liquors may be seized, without a warrant, on his person, and whether he is liable under any existing statute to the search…
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