Legori v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Error to Warren circuit court. Coaltee, J. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the facts of this case. The statute prohibiting the sale of vinous and spirituous liquors in less quantities than one gallon, appropriates to the city of Yicksburg, for the use of a hospital, all fines and forfeitures from a breach of its provisions, within the limits of said city.
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Error to Warren circuit court. Coaltee, J. The opinion of the court contains a sufficient statement of the facts of this case. The statute prohibiting the sale of vinous and spirituous liquors in less quantities than one gallon, appropriates to the city of Yicksburg, for the use of a hospital, all fines and forfeitures from a breach of its provisions, within the limits of said city. Acts of 1842, 109, sec. 2. In cases in which a statute gives the pecuniary penalty for an offense to any particular district or parish, the indictment must charge the offense to have been committed within the…
1Opinion of the Court
Thacher, J.:
This is an indictment for retailing vinous and spirituous liquors, in less quantities than a gallon, within the city of Vicksburg, and without a license.
The proof upon the trial was, that the defendant below retailed the prohibited article in less quantity than a gallon at a place “ four miles out of and from the city of Vicksburg,” and upon this proof the jury found a verdict of guilty as charged in the indictment.
The statute of 1842, amendatory to the statute of 1839, “ for the suppression of tippling houses, and to discourage and prevent the odious vice of drunkenness,” § 2,…
2Cited by1 opinion
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