State v. Jones
Supreme Court of Vermont
This was an indictment in four counts for violation of the statute regulating traffic in intoxicating liquors. Flea, not guilty, and trial by jury at the September Term, 1866, BabRett, J. presiding. All the counts except the fourth were abandoned by the prosecuting attorney, and the respondent was tried upon that count alone.
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This was an indictment in four counts for violation of the statute regulating traffic in intoxicating liquors. Flea, not guilty, and trial by jury at the September Term, 1866, BabRett, J. presiding. All the counts except the fourth were abandoned by the prosecuting attorney, and the respondent was tried upon that count alone. Upon the trial the prosecution introduced evidence tending to show that from the fore part of July, 1866, to the time of trial, the respondent had kept a hotel in the town of Londonderry; that during that time one Corydon F. Wait had been employed by him four days, as a…
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Rece, J.
This was an indictment for selling, furnishing and giving away intoxicating liquor in violation of the statute.
The first question is whether the furnishing to Corydon F. Wait, under the circumstances disclosed by the evidence on the part of the prosecution, comes within the prohibitive and penal provisions of the statute. The evidence was that the respondent kept a hotel in Lon-donderry ; that Wait was employed by him four days as a hostler ; that while so employed the respondent furnished him at the bar with whiskey three times, which he there…
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