State v. . Hazell
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for unlawfully retailing spirituous liquors, by the measure less than a gallon, without license, tried before Clark, J., at the Spring Term, 1888, of the Superior Court of Alamance Countv.
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INDICTMENT for unlawfully retailing spirituous liquors, by the measure less than a gallon, without license, tried before Clark, J., at the Spring Term, 1888, of the Superior Court of Alamance Countv. The jury return a special verdict, as follows: “ That in June, 1885, John Jeffries bought of the defendant, Duncan Hazell, one gallon of whiskey, at defendant’s store, on his plantation in Alamance County; that defendant had no State license to retail spirituous liquors, but was a licensed distiller under the laws of the United States, and the whiskey sold was of his own manufacture; that…
1Opinion of the Court
Davis, J.,
(after stating the facts). Chapter 175, § 34, Acts of 1885, relating to the sale of spirituous liquors, requires a license: “ First, for selling in quantities less than a quart, &c. Second, for selling in quantities of one quart and less than five gallons, &c. Third, for selling in quantities of five gallons or more, &c. * * * Nothing in this section con tained shall prevent any person selling the liquors or wines of their own manufacture, at the place of manufacture, or any person from selling spirits or wines, the products of his own farm, without the license prescribed in…
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