State v. . Neis
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for retailing spirituous liquors without license, tried before Moore, J, at January Term, 1891, of Buncombe Criminal Court.
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INDICTMENT for retailing spirituous liquors without license, tried before Moore, J, at January Term, 1891, of Buncombe Criminal Court. The jury returned a special verdict, the nineteenth paragraph of which is as follows: “ That on April 28th, 1890, the defendant, at the Club House of the Cosmopolitan Club in the city of Asheville, furnished and dealt out to the said W. E. Williamson a small- quantity, to-wit, a drink, of spirituous liquor, so held by the defendant as aforesaid, the said drink being a quantity less than a quart, and being taken by said defendant from a demijohn in which some…
1Opinion of the Court
Clark, J.:
The transaction presented by the special verdict, stripped of surplusage, is this: The defendant was steward of the Cosmopolitan Club of Asheville, and was indicted for selling spirituous liquor to its members. In consequence of the decision in the analagous case of State v. Lockyear, 95 N. C. 633 (the state of facts being the same), he pleaded guilty. The club thereupon distributed a part of the liquors on hand to certain of its members, who placed them in the hands of the defendant to be held by him, not for the club, as a club, but for those individual members of the club as…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- People v. SouleMichigan Supreme Court · 1889
- State v. . LockyearSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1886
- State v. Easton Social, Literary & Musical ClubCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1890
- State v. Essex ClubSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1890
3Cited by17 opinions
- People ex rel. Stevenson v. Law & Order ClubIllinois Supreme Court · 1903
- State ex rel. Bell v. St. Louis ClubSupreme Court of Missouri · 1894
- People v. . Adelphi ClubNew York Court of Appeals · 1896
- Mohrman v. StateSupreme Court of Georgia · 1898
- State v. . BurchfieldSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1908
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