Morrison v. Commonwealth

Judge Marshall

delivered the Opinion of the Court.

This indictment charges that, on the 3d day of March, 1838, and on divers other days and times between that day and the finding of the indictment, Yirgil Morrison did at &c. in a certain house &c. keep and maintain a tippling house, in this, that, on said 3d day of March and on those divers other days &c. he did, in said house, sell by retail divers quantities of spirituous liquors, in smaller quantities than a quart, to persons unknown, which spirituous liquors he did suffer and permit to be drunk in his said house, he the said Virgil…