Hintermeister v. State
Supreme Court of Iowa
Error to Muscatine District Court. Oh the 16th of May, 1854, proceedings were commenced before a justice of the peace, against Jacob Hintermeister, charging him with selling intoxicating liquors, with a view to their being drunlc on or about the premises where sold.
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Error to Muscatine District Court. Oh the 16th of May, 1854, proceedings were commenced before a justice of the peace, against Jacob Hintermeister, charging him with selling intoxicating liquors, with a view to their being drunlc on or about the premises where sold. The information, after the proper venue and title of the cause, read as follows: “ The prosecuting attorney for the county of Muscatine, on the oath of Uriah M. Holmes, a credible witness, now here, gives the court to understand and be informed, that Jacob Hintermeister, an evil disposed person, late of said county of Muscatine,…
1Opinion of the CourtWeight, C. J.
Tbe plaintiff in error relies- upon three, grounds to reverse tbis case. First, tbe overruling tbe demurrer. We have examined tbe information, and conclude that tbis demurrer- was very properly overruled. Tbe information charges, that tbe sale was made on tbe 12th day of March, 1854, at tbe county of Muscatine,, in a certain-frame bouse, .situate on a part of lot 6, block 10, in tbe city ©f Muscatine ; that tbe bouse was at tbe time of tbe sale, in tbe possession and occupancy of said Hintermeister; and that tbe sale was made by him, with intent: on tbe part of Hintermeister, that tbe liquor…
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