People v. Telford

A complaint was lodged before a justice of the peace against the respondent, charging that on the 4th day of July, 1882, at the village of Dansville, the respondent was then and there a person whose business, in paid, consisted in selling and keeping for sale distilled liquors, to wit, whisky and gin, at retail, and was then and there engaged in the business of selling and offering and keeping for sale spirituous and intoxicating liquors (not proprietary patent medicine) by retail, to wit, whisky and gin, without having paid in full or in part the tax required by law to be paid upon the…