State v. Langdon
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Defendant having been indicted under Gen. St. 1878, c. 1G, § 4, in the district court for Nobles county, demurred to the indictment which was as follows-: [Yenue and title.] “Ben Langdon is accused by the grand jury of the county of Nobles,. State of Minnesota, by this indictment, of the crime of selling malt liquor in a less- quantity than five gallons, without first having obtained license therefor, committed as follows: The said Ben Lang-don, on the 4th day of August, A.…
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Defendant having been indicted under Gen. St. 1878, c. 1G, § 4, in the district court for Nobles county, demurred to the indictment which was as follows-: [Yenue and title.] “Ben Langdon is accused by the grand jury of the county of Nobles,. State of Minnesota, by this indictment, of the crime of selling malt liquor in a less- quantity than five gallons, without first having obtained license therefor, committed as follows: The said Ben Lang-don, on the 4th day of August, A. D. 1880, at the village of Worth-ington, Nobles county, Minnesota, then and there being, did then and there sell to one…
1Opinion of the CourtDicKinson, J.
By indictment the defendant was accused, under the provisions of the general law, of the crime of selling malt liquor in the village of Worthington, in a less quantity than five gallons, without first having obtained a license therefor. The specific charge in the indictment is a sale, to a person, and at a time and place named, of “one quart of malt liquor, commonly called lager beer.” The indictment then proceeds: “He, the said Ben Langdon, not hav*395ing a license to sell said liquor; contrary, to the form of the statute, ” etc. A demurrer to the indictment having been disallowed by the court,…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. LavakeSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1880
3Cited by4 opinions
- State v. BachSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1886
- State v. HoltSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1897
- State v. LangdonSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1883
- State v. NolanSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1887