State v. Groves
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for selling intoxicating liquors within a prohibited territory, tried before Hoke, J., and a jury at Fall Term, 1897, of Gaston Superior Court. The defendant was convicted and appealed. The facts appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtFurches, J.
The defendant is indicted for selling whiskey within less than two miles of Olney Church in Gaston County. It is admitted that Chapter 179, Acts 1885, prohibit, the sale of intoxicating liquors within two miles of said Church, and makes it a criminal offence to do so. It was shown that the defendant lives within about one half mile of said Church, and that he is the owner of a distillery at which he manufactured whiskey, but this distillery is more than two miles from the Church; that the defendant had a building at his home used by him for the “storage and sale” of his whiskey, and that this…
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