Gill v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. W. D. Jacoway, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. On the eighth day of September, 1880, Eufus Gill was indicted in the Conway Circuit Court for Sabbath breaking, by selling liquor on Sunday, on the twenty-ninth day of August, 1880. A bench warrant was ordered but not issued until January 25th, 1882, and served the next day.
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APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. W. D. Jacoway, Circuit Judge. STATEMENT. On the eighth day of September, 1880, Eufus Gill was indicted in the Conway Circuit Court for Sabbath breaking, by selling liquor on Sunday, on the twenty-ninth day of August, 1880. A bench warrant was ordered but not issued until January 25th, 1882, and served the next day. On the-seventh of March, 1882, the indictment was quashed, on motion of the State, and the case referred to the grand jury,, then in session, and on March 13th, 1882, the grand jury returned into court another indictment against him for…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION.
Harrison, J.
The objections to the indictment were not well taken. It was alleged with sufficient directness and certainty that the day on which the ardent spirits were sold, was Sunday. No person of ordinary understanding, but could so have understood. And it need not have alleged that the offense was committed on a day within the period of limitations. Scoggins v. The State, 32 Ark., 205.
Though relevant and important for the State, it' was certainly not an error of which the appellant might complain, that the court refused to allow him to introduce evidence of the finding and…
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