State v. . Joyner
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Retailing Liquor, tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Northampton Superior Court, before Mire, J. The defendant was indicted in the following words: “The jurors for the state upon their oath present, that E. C. Joyner late of the county aforesaid at and in the county aforesaid, on the 20th day of March, 1879, unlawfully did sell to one A. H. Reid one pint of intoxicating liquor contrary to the statute in such case made and provided.”
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INDICTMENT for Retailing Liquor, tried at Spring Term, 1879, of Northampton Superior Court, before Mire, J. The defendant was indicted in the following words: “The jurors for the state upon their oath present, that E. C. Joyner late of the county aforesaid at and in the county aforesaid, on the 20th day of March, 1879, unlawfully did sell to one A. H. Reid one pint of intoxicating liquor contrary to the statute in such case made and provided.” The jury returned a special verdict, to wit, “ the defendant sold to A. H. Reid in Northampton county on th.e 20th day of March, 1879, ope pint of…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, C. J.
The defendant is charged with violating the first section of the local act of March 22nd, 1875 (Act 1874-’75, ch. 255, § 1), and the jury rendered a special verdict in which they find “that the defendant sold to A. H. Reid in Northampton county on the 20th day of March, 1879, one pint of intoxicating liquor,” as specified in the bill of indictment. The court being of opinion that upon this finding the defendant was guilty, pronounced judgment, from which the defendant appeals. The points made in this court and strenuously contested for the defendant, relate, first, to the validity of the…
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