State v. Seaboard Air Line Railway Co.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Appeal by tbe State from Bond, J., at July Term, 1914, of Wake. Indictment for refusing to allow an inspection of certain books containing a record of shipments and deliveries to consignees of intoxicating liquors in violation of Public Laws 1913, cb. 44, sec. 5. It appeared tbat tbe defendant bad sucb a book as the statute requires it to keep, and tbe relevant facts embodied in a special verdict and tbe proceedings thereon are as follows: “We, tbe jurors sworn and impaneled…
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Appeal by tbe State from Bond, J., at July Term, 1914, of Wake. Indictment for refusing to allow an inspection of certain books containing a record of shipments and deliveries to consignees of intoxicating liquors in violation of Public Laws 1913, cb. 44, sec. 5. It appeared tbat tbe defendant bad sucb a book as the statute requires it to keep, and tbe relevant facts embodied in a special verdict and tbe proceedings thereon are as follows: “We, tbe jurors sworn and impaneled in this case, return tbe following special verdict in this case, tbe defendant having agreed tbat a special verdict…
1Opinion of the CourtHoke, J.
It has now for some years “been the settled public policy of this State, approved by popular vote and enforced by general and many *299local statutes, tbat except in certain specified and very restricted instances tbe manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors shall not be allowed.” Smith v. Express Co., 166 N. C., 155.
Acting, no doubbt, under tbe conviction tbat where such a policy has been established as necessary to tbe peace and well ordered progress of communities tbe people are entitled to have tbe same upheld, and recognizing tbat its successful maintenance and efficient enforcement is…
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