State v. Downer
Wisconsin Supreme Court
REPORTED from tbe Circuit Court for Jackson County. Defendant was indicted for selling spirituous liquors; and after conviction, the cause was reported to this court, under the statute, for the determination of questions of law raised by defendant’s exceptions to the rulings and instructions of the court below.
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REPORTED from tbe Circuit Court for Jackson County. Defendant was indicted for selling spirituous liquors; and after conviction, the cause was reported to this court, under the statute, for the determination of questions of law raised by defendant’s exceptions to the rulings and instructions of the court below. The nature of those questions will appear from the opinion. contended: 1. That the indictment was void because it did not charge that defendant received any compensation for the liquor alleged to have been sold by him. Starlde’s Or. PL, 79; Maride v. The Slate, 3 Ind., 535; Statev.…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
It is objected that the indictment is defective because it is not charged that the defendant received compensation for the liquors sold by him. It is alleged in each count of the indictment, that, at a certain time and place, the defendant did sell ” spirituous liquors to certain persons therein named, without first having obtained a license therefor. This is *276charging the offense in the language of the statute, and we cannot see why it is not sufficiently certain to answer the rules of criminal pleading. The statute makes it a misdemeanor to “ vend, sell, deal or traffic in ” spirituous…
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