State v. . Cooper
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Indictmicxt for violation of the Local Option Law, tried before Montgomery, J., at September Term, 1887, of Tran-.sylvaNIA Superior Court.
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Indictmicxt for violation of the Local Option Law, tried before Montgomery, J., at September Term, 1887, of Tran-.sylvaNIA Superior Court. It is charged in the indictment that the sale of spirituous liquors was prohibited in Davidson River Township, in the county of Transylvania, by a vote of a majority of the electors of that township, as allowed by the statute .(The Code, §§ 3110, 3116), and that the defendant sold such liquors within that township while such sale was so prohibited to sundry persons named, there being but one count in the indictment, so that several distinct offences were…
1Opinion of the CourtMerrimon, J.
(after staling the case.) The defendant made no obj' ction on the trial to the evidence produced on the part of the State. It went to prove that an election was ordered and held according to the forms of the law, and that the result was ascertained and declared in writing to be in favor of “Prohibition.” The statute (The Code, §3114) required that it should be held as nearly as practicable in accordance with the statute regulating elections of members of the General Assembly. It seems to us that this was substantially done. It appears that there was but one voting place in the township. The…
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