People v. Drennan

The respondent was convicted in the Wayne circuit court upon the charge that he was engaged on the 28th day of May, 1889, at the city of Wyandotte, in the business of selling, by retail, malt, brewed, fermented, and intoxicating liquors, without having paid the tax required by law upon such business; he not being then and there a druggist, etc.

It seems that the complaint and warrant upon which respondent was arrested and held to trial did not negative that Drennan was a druggist. Eespondent pleaded to the information, which contained the proper averment that he was not a druggist, etc. When…