People v. Sullivan

Respondent was complained against in justice's court for keeping his saloon, in the city of Sault Ste. Marie, open after legal hours, on October 1, 1889. He waived examination, and the cause was returned to the circuit court for Chippewa county for trial. An information was filed against him, which did not allege that the defendant was not a druggist, or that the place kept open was not a drug-store. After a jury was impaneled to try the cause, the court permitted the prosecution to amend the information by stating that—

“ lie, the said Patrick J. Sullivan, not being then and there a druggist…