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43 Me. 282

State v. Hadlock

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided July 1, 1857

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · decided 1857-07-01

Exceptions at Nisi Prius, G-oodenow, J., presiding. The defendant was .found guilty upon both counts of the following indictment: The jurors for said state upon their oaths present, that Benjamin Hadlock, of Saco, in said county of York, on the first day of September now last passed, and on divers other . days and times, between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, at Saco aforesaid, in the county aforesaid, not being authorized by the selectmen,…

Decided 1857-07-01

Tenney, C. J.

¶1The indictment in the first count alleges that the defendant, not being licensed to sell intoxicating liquors, nor to keep an inn, did sell intoxicating liquots, and allowed the same to be drank in the place where the same were sold, which place was at the time under the control of the defendant. Within the meaning of the statute, a person cannot have the control of an inn, to keep which .another person has been licensed, it being a special trust reposed in the keeper authorised. The allegations in the first, count necessarily import a-violation of the 16th sec. of chap. 255 of the statutes of 1856.

¶2The second count is more general in its language, and if it stood alone, might not be regarded as sufficiently specific in its allegations. Of this, however, we give no opinion. Defects in some of the counts in an indictment will not affect the validity of the remainder, for the judgment may be given against the defendant, upon those which are valid. Chit. Or. Law, 240 and 640.

¶3Nothing erroneous in the instructions to the jury is perceived, and the exceptions taken to the overruling of the motion in arrest of judgment and to the instructions are

¶4Overruled.

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