Roberts v. State
Roberts v. State
Opinion of the Court
The writ of error in this case is from the superior court of Coffee county, wherein plaintiff in error was convicted of the offense of selling spirituous and intoxicating liquors without license. He was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, set out in the record, from which it appears that, on January 29, 1901, L. S. Guthrie paid to the municipal authorities of the City of Douglas, in Coffee county, the sum of one thousand dollars, in consideration of which such authorities issued to him a license to retail spirituous, malt, and intoxicating liquors in that city; that on the same dayhe paid to the tax-collector of Coffee county two hundred dollars for a State license to sell such liquors in that county, for the fiscal year of 1901, and, on the same day, took the oath, filed a bond, and registered, in terms of the law, as a retail dealer in spirituous and malt liquors;’that since January 29,1901, and prior to the finding of the indictment against the plaintiff in error, he, while in the employment of Guthrie, as clerk, sold for Guthrie spirituous and intoxicating liquors in the city of Douglas; that neither Guthrie nor the plaintiff in error had ever paid to the county of Coffee the license fee of ten thousand dollars, fixed for the sale of liquor by the local high-license laws of that county. The only point made in the brief of counsel for plaintiff in error is that the high-license local law for Coffee county is unconstitutional, upon the ground that it is special legislation in a case for which provision had been made by the existing general domestic-wine act of 1877, and that as the local law, for this reason, was void, the municipal authorities of Douglas, who are empowered by the charter of the city to issue licenses for the sale of liquor therein, had authority to issue the license under which Guthrie was selling liquor, and that as the plaintiff in error sold liquor under such city license, as Guthrie’s clerk, he was not guilty of the offense charged.
We do not think the point well taken. It is a uniform rule, in
Judgment affirmed.
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