Stout v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. G-. S. Cunningham, Circuit Judge. The “annual school meeting of the district” is not an election within the meaning of the law. Statutes in declaring what acts shall constitute an offense and in prescribing the punishment to be inflicted, are to be construed rigorously. 6 Hill, 616. School districts are bodies corporate, quasi municipal corporations.
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APPEAL from Conway Circuit Court. Hon. G-. S. Cunningham, Circuit Judge. The “annual school meeting of the district” is not an election within the meaning of the law. Statutes in declaring what acts shall constitute an offense and in prescribing the punishment to be inflicted, are to be construed rigorously. 6 Hill, 616. School districts are bodies corporate, quasi municipal corporations. In selecting directors, the electors hold a “public meeting,” choose a chairman and vote for directors, as citizens choose deacons, vestrymen, bank directors, &c., which being completed, they adjourn. The…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
Hmior'on electíon Say Stout was charged with giving awav intoxica- " , . . . , ting liquors in his school district on the day of the annual school meeting, at which a director was to be chosen. After a demurrer to the indictment was overruled, he was convicted aud fined $200. The testimony showed that on said day he gave a man, at his request, a drink of whisky, after the polls were closed. He was not the owner or keeper of a drinking saloon. A motion in arrest of judgment was also denied.
The statute that was supposed to be violated is the 22d section of the general election law of January…
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