Backhaus v. People
Appellate Court of Illinois
Information.—For a violation . of the dram-shop act. Error to the County Court of Kankakee County; the Hon. E. B. Gower, Judge, presiding. Heard in this court at the October term, 1899.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Higbee
This was a proceeding in the County Court, by information against plaintiff in error, charging him with violating the dram-shop act. '
The information contained thirteen counts, eleven of which charged him with selling, and two with giving away, •intoxicating liquors in less quantity than one gallon, “ not having a legal license to keep a dram-shop.” Upon the trial the people introduced evidence showing that plaintiff in error was a saloon keeper, doing business in the village of Grant Park, in Kankakee county, and that he had made several sales of intoxicating liquor between Hay 2, 1898, and…
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