Legal Opinion

State v. Jarvis

Supreme Court of Minnesota

Decided December 24, 1896No. Nos. 10,260—(42)PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Case certified from the district court for Polk county. Defendants were indicted as stated in the opinion. They demurred to the indictment for the reasons (1) that it appeared from the face thereof that the facts stated therein did not constitute a public offense; and (2) that it appeared from the face thereof that the facts stated therein did not constitute a public offense of which the district court had jurisdiction, and that the offense attempted to be set out was not…

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Case certified from the district court for Polk county. Defendants were indicted as stated in the opinion. They demurred to the indictment for the reasons (1) that it appeared from the face thereof that the facts stated therein did not constitute a public offense; and (2) that it appeared from the face thereof that the facts stated therein did not constitute a public offense of which the district court had jurisdiction, and that the offense attempted to be set out was not indictable, but was exclusively within the jurisdiction of the municipal court of East Grand Forks. The demurrer was…

1Opinion of the CourtBuck, J.

The defendants were indicted by the grand jury of the county of Polk at the general term of the district court held therein in the month of June, 1896, for the crime of keeping their saloon open after eleven o’clock at night, committed as follows:

“That said J. Jarvis and P. Holdahl, on the 24th day of March, 1896, at the city of East Grand Forks, in the county of Polk, and state of Minnesota, did willfully and wrongfully and unlawfully keep open after eleven o’clock at night on said day that certain place wherein the sale of intoxicating liquors was licensed, said place being then and there…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Groff v. RamseySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1872

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. State v. KunzSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1903
  2. State v. CorcoranSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
  3. State v. MinorSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1917
  4. State v. TracySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1901
  5. State v. SchmidtSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1910

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