State v. Lotti
Supreme Court of Vermont
Indictment for selling, furnishing and giving away intoxicating liquor contrary to law. "Washington County, September •Term, 1899, Thompson, J., presiding. Trial by jury. Yerdict, guilty. Judgment on verdict. Exceptions by respondent. The only exception was to the instruction recited below. The testimony to which the instruction was applicable was given by the respondent and sufficiently appears from the opinion.
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Indictment for selling, furnishing and giving away intoxicating liquor contrary to law. "Washington County, September •Term, 1899, Thompson, J., presiding. Trial by jury. Yerdict, guilty. Judgment on verdict. Exceptions by respondent. The only exception was to the instruction recited below. The testimony to which the instruction was applicable was given by the respondent and sufficiently appears from the opinion. The court instructed the jury that while the respondent had a right to keep wine and ale to use himself, or for the use of his wife, mother and children, and for members of his…
1Opinion of the CourtTaft, C. J.
The respondent kept a boarding house, with sixteen boarders and lodgers, and two or three boarders. At dinner and supper he furnished them with ale and wine, and they were accustomed to drink it. The boarders and lodgers paid the respondent sixty cents per day for their board and lodging. The furnishing of the ale and wine by the respondent to his boarders, as a part of their meals, was iix effect a sale to them of so much ale and wine as they drank, and the keeping of it by the respondent for that purpose was unlawful. The case is not within sec. 4462 V. S. providing that the words “ give…
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