Bepley v. State
| Decision Date | 06 June 1853 |
| Parties | Bepley v. The State |
| Court | Indiana Supreme Court |
APPEAL from the Hamilton Court of Common Pleas.
The judgment is affirmed with costs.
This was a prosecution for a nuisance, under the 17th section of the act of March, 1853, regulating the retail of spirituous liquors. Trial by jury. Verdict and judgment for the state.
A motion to quash made before trial was correctly overruled. In form the proceedings are similar to the case of Lindville v. The State, decided at the November term, 1852 [1]; and for the reasons there given are substantially good.
There was evidence tending to prove that Bepley, on a single occasion, sold liquor by a less quantity than a gallon, and suffered it to be drank in his house. It appeared also that he had bottles of different kinds of liquor usual in retail establishments. It was for the jury to say whether this evidence was sufficient. Having so decided in a matter peculiarly within their province to decide, we think the verdict ought not to be disturbed. 4 Blackf. 247.
There is a technical point, well settled in the books, but often overlooked in practice, which would restrain us from disturbing the verdict, if we were otherwise so disposed. The defendant moved first in arrest of judgment. According to the authorities he could not afterwards take the opinion of the Court below on the sufficiency of the evidence, by a motion for a new trial, unless he had brought himself within some of the recognized exceptions, which he has not done. In the order in which they were made the one motion was fatal to the other. Rogers v. Maxwell, ante, 243.--2 Ind. 117.
The constitutional question so elaborately argued by counsel does not arise in the record. The 17th section is not liable to any objection of that kind. It is competent for the legislature to declare any practice deemed injurious to the public a nuisance, and to punish it accordingly. This is fully recognized in the elaborate liquor cases decided in 5th Howard U.S. R. 504, et infra.
Whether the law is politic or expedient or necessary, is not a question with which the courts have anything to do. That lies between the people and those to whom they delegate the temporary power of making laws. If the act is not a reflection of public sentiment, neither the responsibility nor the remedy lies with the courts.
No inference is to be drawn that the Court considers the whole...
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