State v. Mahoney
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was convlct-ed, before a justice of the peace, of the offence of selling liquor to an habitual drunkard, and sentenced to pay a fine of $50, and the costs, and to imprisonment on default of payment. On appeal on questions of law, the judgment of the justice was affirmed by the district court for Dodge county, and defendant appealed,
1Opinion of the CourtGilpillan, C. J.
The defendant was charged with unlawfully selling spirituous liquors to an habitual drunkard. The only proof of the fact was that the person alleged to have been an habitual drunkard bought spirituous liquor from defendant’s clerk, there being no evidence of the defendant being present, nor of his having given the clerk authority to sell to this particular person, or to any habitual drunkard. The sale by the clerk was made at defendant’s saloon, where he appears to have carried on the business of selling liquors, apparently under a license. The presumption from a clerk being employed at the…
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