State v. Funk
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant was tried and convicted in the district court for Hennepin county, before Young, J., on an indictment charging him with selling liquor without a license, at the town of Minneapolis in that county. A motion for a new trial was denied, sentence was passed, and the defendant appealed.
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Defendant was tried and convicted in the district court for Hennepin county, before Young, J., on an indictment charging him with selling liquor without a license, at the town of Minneapolis in that county. A motion for a new trial was denied, sentence was passed, and the defendant appealed. At the trial the defendant offered to prove that prior to the date of the sale alleged in the indictment, the town had voted against license, and also offered in evidence a receipt of the United States internal revenue collector of the proper district for the special tax paid by defendant as a retail…
1Opinion of the CourtGilfillan, C. J.
Gen. St. 1878, c. 16, § 1, empowers boards of county commissioners to grant licenses to sell spirituous, vinous, or fermented and malt liquors, with the proviso that if the people of any municipal township shall, on the question being submitted to them as therein authorized, vote against license, then the board of county commissioners shall grant no license in said township. Section é makes the selling of liquors, spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt, in less quantity than five gallons, without license ob-*319tamed agreeably to the provisions of tbe chapter, a misdemeanor, and prescribes the…
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