Balbontin v. State
Balbontin v. State
Opinion of the Court
During the license year 1913-14, the petitioner in a certain “storeroom” conducted “a restaurant, having tables, chairs and regular service, where patrons are served with meals and intoxicating liquors with their meals, if so desired, and in the same storeroom conducted a retail liquor saloon.” The petitioner duly obtained and held a regular license as a retail liquor dealer and also “a license to conduct a restaurant with the
Section 41 of Chapter 6421, Acts of 1913, provides that the owners or managers of restaurants “When connected with a barroom or place where intoxicating liquors are sold, or where intoxicating liquors are allowed to be served,-shall pay to the State a license tax of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars.”
Sections 5 and 7 of Chapter 6516, Acts of 1913, make it a misdemeanor to allow doors, blinds, curtains, shades, screens or other things to prevent persons on the outside of a liquor saloon from seeing inside thereof, “Provided,
The judgment of the Circuit Court affirming the unauthorized judgment of the Criminal Court of Record of Hillsborough County is quashed.
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- B. M. Balbontin v. The State of Florida
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- Chapter 6516, Acts of 1913, does not make it a misdemeanor to use or allow doors, or screens, etc., in a single room where a restaurant and a liquor saloon are “run and operated in the same room” by the same proprietor, when such proprietor has duly procured and holds one license for such place as a retail liquor dealer and also a proper license for the same room as a restaurant keeper in connection with a barroom. The law does not contemplate that in such a case two liquor licenses shall be obtained and held, when the business of a liquor saloon and a restaurant are conducted in the same room by the same proprietor, and there is no attempt to evade the law regulating such subjects.