People v. Damskey
Michigan Supreme Court
Exceptions before sentence from the superior court of Grand Rapids; Stuart, J. Frank S. Damskey was convicted of violating the law relating to the keeping of saloons closed on Sum day.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
The respondent, who was the proprietor of the Western Hotel in the city of Grand Rapids, was informed against and convicted of the offense of failing to keep his saloon closed on a certain Sunday in August, 1913. To establish the guilt of the respondent, the people showed that respondent’s son was in the saloon on the day in question. This was admitted by the respondent, but he insisted that the act of the son in entering the saloon was without either his knowledge or consent, and that in so doing the son was a trespasser, for whose act he would not be responsible.
It appears that the son was…
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