State v. Polk
New York Court of General Session of the Peace
Indictment for Selling Liquor Illegally. The indictment was as follows: “Sussex County, ss. October Term, 1907. “The Grand Inquest for the State of Delaware and the body of Sussex County, on their oath and affirmation, respectively, do present, that George A. Polk late of North West Fork Hundred, in the County aforesaid, on the twenty-second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven with force and arms at North West Fork Hundred in the…
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Indictment for Selling Liquor Illegally. The indictment was as follows: “Sussex County, ss. October Term, 1907. “The Grand Inquest for the State of Delaware and the body of Sussex County, on their oath and affirmation, respectively, do present, that George A. Polk late of North West Fork Hundred, in the County aforesaid, on the twenty-second day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven with force and arms at North West Fork Hundred in the County aforesaid, in a certain house there situate to wit: a dwelling-house located near Bridgeville in the Hundred and…
1Opinion of the Court
Grubb, J.,
charging the jury.
Gentlemen of the jury :■—In this indictment the defendant is charged with selling liquor unlawfully to the prosecuting witness. The question raised before you is whether there was what the law. considers a sale of whiskey to the prosecuting witness. A sale is the delivery of an article, whiskey in this case, to another, the prosecuting witness, for a consideration—either money or other valuable consideration. The question before you is *459whether the defendant delivered this whiskey to the prosecuting witness and received money from the prosecuting witness for it.
It…
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