State v. Brosius

The defendants were indicted for selling vinous, fermented and spirituous liquors as merchants in less quantity than one gallon, and permitting the same to be drunk at their stand, store, and place of business, without having a dram-shop keeper’s licence. The evidence tended to show that such liquors had been sold at their store, but wholly failed to show that they were sold in quantities less than one gallon, or that they were permitted to be drunk at or in the store. It was proved that liquors which had been purchased of the defendants had been drunk in a gunsmith’s shop adjoining the…