Sloan v. State

Sloan, the plaintiff in error, was indicted in the Wayne Circuit Court for selling spirituous liquors without license. The case was submitted for trial upon an agreed statement of the facts, and judgment rendered in favour of the state. The error assigned is, that the judgment should have been for the defendant.

The defence set up by Sloan was, that by the act of 1840 incorporating the city of Richmond, in Wayne county, the exclusive power to license retailers of spirits was given to the city; and that if he had violated any law, it was the ordinance of that city, and not the general law of…