Maguire v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from tbe Criminal Court of Baltimore City. The appellant was indicted under section 179 of the Act of 1866, chapter 66, which repealed and re-enacted with amendments sections 179 and 180 of Article 30, Code Pub. Gen. Laws.
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Appeal from tbe Criminal Court of Baltimore City. The appellant was indicted under section 179 of the Act of 1866, chapter 66, which repealed and re-enacted with amendments sections 179 and 180 of Article 30, Code Pub. Gen. Laws. In the first and second counts of the indictment it was charged that the appellant had, in 1875, being then the licensed keeper of an ordinary, unlawfully sold, disposed of and given away, on a certain Sunday in that year, a quantity, less than one pint, of spirituous liquor to a certain person, and had been convicted and sentenced for such offence in February, 1876;…
1Opinion of the CourtAlvey, J.
This is an appeal brought here on exceptions, under the Act of 1872, ch. 316.
The indictment is for violating the provisions of the statute in regard to selling, disposing of, or giving away certain articles, among which are spirituous or fermented liquors, on the Sabbath day, commonly called Sunday. The statute is that of 1866, ch. 66, which repealed and re-enacted sections 179 and 180 of Art. 30 of the Code of Public General Laws. The indictment contains three counts ; the first, for selling whiskey on the Sabbath day; the second, for disposing of whiskey on the Sabbath day; and the third,…
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