Knight v. State
Knight v. State
Opinion of the Court
Judgment affirmed.
The indictment against Knight, agent of the United. States Express Company in Cedartown, charged that he on December 23, 1890, in Polk county “did unlawfully sell brandy, wine, whisky, beer and other spirituous and malt liquors without and before first having gone before the ordinary of said county and registered his name as a dealer in such liquors as prescribed in the code of Georgia and amendments thereto,” etc. He excepted to the overruling of his demurrer and of his motion for new trial. The demurrer was as follows: The indictment is insufficient in that the charge is for violation of a statute which was not of force in the county at the date it was alleged the same was committed, for the reason that at the date of the commis
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