State v. . Williams
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictment for selling spirituous liquors to one Calvin Bethune, within five miles of Bethel church, in Richmond county, contrary to the provisions of the Act of 1881, ch. 234, tried before MacRae, Judge, at Fall Term, 1885, of Richmond Superior Court.
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Indictment for selling spirituous liquors to one Calvin Bethune, within five miles of Bethel church, in Richmond county, contrary to the provisions of the Act of 1881, ch. 234, tried before MacRae, Judge, at Fall Term, 1885, of Richmond Superior Court. The defendant pleaded “not guilty,” and “former acquittal,” and the jury, on the trial of the plea of former acquittal, rendered the following special verdict: “The jury find, that on or about the fifth day of December, 1884, the defendant, at a certain place in the county of Richmond, known as the Jim Green place, did sell to Calvin Bethune,…
1Opinion of the Court
Ashe, J.,
(after stating the facts). This is certainly a case of the first impression. We have been unable to find any case like it in the books on criminal law, and the learned and undefatiga-ble counsel for the defendant, admitted in the argument of the case, that they had been unable, in their researches, to find any case where such a practice had been adopted.
The mischief intended to be remedied by the Act of 1881, under which the defendant was indicted, was evidently to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors, with their usual concomitants of drunkenness, broils and boisterous and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. . NashSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1882
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