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2 Doug. 92

People v. Webster

Michigan Supreme Court

Decided January 15, 1845

Michigan Supreme Court · decided 1845-01-15

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently January 1846

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Decided 1845-01-15

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¶1An indictment for a violation of the statute against the presuming to be 11 a seller of wine, brandy, rum, or other spirituous liquors,” &c. without being licensed as an innholder, (R. S. 1838, p. 203, § 1,*) charged the defendant with presuming to be a seller of whiskey, alleging it to be spirituous liquor, without such license Held, sufficient; and that the presuming to be a seller of whiskey, was forbidden by the statute, although that kind of spirituous liquor was not therein specifically mentioned.

¶2 Re-enacted by R. S. 1846, p. 184, § 1.

¶3 Dwarris on Stat. 737, and East’s P. C. 1075, n. a. were cited, on the argument of this case, to show the indictment bad.

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