State v. Perkins.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT against Richard Perkins, beard by Judge Q. 5. Ferguson and a jury, at the November Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Union. The defendant was indicted in one count for selling and in the other for keeping for sale liquor, without having a license, as provided by law, and was convicted.
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INDICTMENT against Richard Perkins, beard by Judge Q. 5. Ferguson and a jury, at the November Term, 1905, of the Superior Court of Union. The defendant was indicted in one count for selling and in the other for keeping for sale liquor, without having a license, as provided by law, and was convicted. The offense was committed in the year 1904 and the indictment was found at July Term, 1905. The defendant requested the court to charge the jury that, as the offense was committed, if at all, prior to June 1, 1905, the defendant should be acquitted, and he moved to quash the bill and to arrest the…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, J.,
after stating the case: The ruling of the court was in all respects correct. The indictment was drawn under chapter 434 of the Laws of 1903 prohibiting the sale of liquor in Union County, or the keeping of it for sale, without a license. By chapter 497 of the laws of 1905, it is enacted that the sale of liquor and the keeping of it for sale shall be” prohibited, with certain exceptions not necessary to be stated. There is no clause in the latter act unqualifiedly repealing prior enactments upon the same subject, but by sections 26 and 27 it is provided that all laws and clauses of…
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