40 Mo. App. 271 | Mo. Ct. App. | 1890
Defendant Tindall was indicted, tried and convicted of selling intoxicating liquors at Arrow Rock, Saline county, Missouri, without having a license as a dramshop-keeper. Prom the judgment against
I. The question here is one of law — there is no dispute as to the material facts, as we view the case. The statute law which defendant is charged with violating declares : “No person shall directly, or indirectly, .sell intoxicating liquors in any quantity less than one
This case is quite different from that of State v. Clark (18 Mo. App. 531) cited by defendant’s counsel. There Clark and several others joined in purchasing a ten-gallon keg of whiskey, each contributing a certain proportionate part of the money needed when the whiskey was ordered. Clark received the keg of whiskey, and, in distributing the same as per agreement' formerly made, delivered to one party a half gallon. For this he was indicted, and this court held, in effect, that this was not a sale by Clark, but that it was a joint purchase in the first instance and that Clark only gave over to each his portion thus purchased. While in the
But even beyond all this the defense is so entirely devoid of merit, and this “Club” scheme such a palpable sham, that, in my judgment, the lower court was justified in refusing to admit in evidence the so-called “articles of association.” In the language of the supreme court of Illinois in a case quite parallel: “ All this is plainly a device on the part of the defendant to avoid the provisions of the law, and to enable him to sell intoxicating liquors at retail, as he had formerly done, without first obtaining a license to keep a dramshop. The whole thing was a subtle artifice, planned with a view to avoid the penalties denounced against persons violating the law.” Rickart v. The People, 79 Ill. 90; Marmont v. The State, 48 Ind. 21.
We have read and considered all the evidence offered as well that admitted as rejected, and conclude on the undisputed facts of this case the judgment was for the right party, and ought to be affirmed, and it is so ordered.