Legal Opinion

State v. Blahut

Supreme Court of Arkansas

Decided November 15, 1886PublishedCited by 17 opinions

APPEAL from Garland Circuit Court. Hon. J. B. Wood, Circuit Judge. On the 10th day of April, 1886, two bills were returned against the appellee: No. 404, charging him with selling liquor to Nick Gray, a minor, on the 15th of January, 1886 ; No. 377 charged him with selling to the same party on the 15th of February, 1886, and to this charge he pleaded guilty, and when No. 404 was subsequently called for tidal he interposed a plea of former conviction, relying upon the plea of…

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APPEAL from Garland Circuit Court. Hon. J. B. Wood, Circuit Judge. On the 10th day of April, 1886, two bills were returned against the appellee: No. 404, charging him with selling liquor to Nick Gray, a minor, on the 15th of January, 1886 ; No. 377 charged him with selling to the same party on the 15th of February, 1886, and to this charge he pleaded guilty, and when No. 404 was subsequently called for tidal he interposed a plea of former conviction, relying upon the plea of guilty in 377. The state proved sales by him to the said minor on other and different days than the 15th of February…

1Opinion of the CourtCockrill, C. J.

Two indictments were returned against the appellee for selling whisky to a minor. The first charged him with selling to a minor on the 15th day of January ; the second, with selling to the same minor on the 15th day of February, of the same year. He entered a plea of guilty to the second indictment, and when the other case was called for trial, he interposed a plea of former conviction, relying upon the judgment upon the plea of guilty in the first case as a bar. On the trial of the issue under this plea before the court, a jury being waived, the state proved that the defendant had made sales…

2Cited by17 opinions

  1. State v. SheffieldUtah Supreme Court · 1915
  2. State v. HealySupreme Court of Minnesota · 1917
  3. State v. PianfettiSupreme Court of Vermont · 1906
  4. In re BrownSupreme Court of Kansas · 1934
  5. People v. GaultMichigan Supreme Court · 1895

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