Prather v. People

This was an indictment, in the Cumberland circuit court, under the act of 1874, title, “ Dram Shops,” for selling intoxicating liquors without a license. The defendants were convicted and fines imposed, and they bring the record here by writ of error, assigning various errors, one of which is sufficient to reverse the judgment, and that is, the refusal of the court to admit evidence that Prairie City, the place where the act was done, was an incorporated village.

By section 3 of the act in question, it is provided, the county boards shall not have power to issue any license to keep any…