Citation Numbers: 21 S.E. 689, 116 N.C. 1064
Judges: Clabk
Filed Date: 2/5/1895
Status: Precedential
Modified Date: 10/19/2024
The indictment charges the sale of spirituous liquor within two miles of Bethel Methodist Church in Macon County. The statute, Laws 1881, ch. 234, and the verdict both describe the church simply as Bethel Church in Macon County. There is nothing to (1066) indicate that the church is not one and the same. The added word "Methodist" in the indictment is simply harmless surplusage or immaterial variance. S. v. Eaves,
Nor was it necessary to refer to the statute in the indictment, as it was a public local statute. S. v. Wallace,
The criminal intent is not the intent to violate the law but the intentional doing the act which is a violation of law. It is only when the criminality depends not merely upon the act but upon the motive or intent with which it is done that the intent becomes material. S. v.McBrayer,
The license from the United States Government was only a protection from prosecution by its authority. It did not protect the defendants from prosecution in the State courts for selling contrary to State laws. S. v.Stevens,
When there is an exception in the same clause which creates the offense it should be negatived in the indictment. If the exception is in *Page 626
another clause this is not necessary, but it is matter to be shown in defense. S. v. Norman,
No Error.
Cited: S. v. Bynum,
(1068)
State v. . Bynum , 117 N.C. 752 ( 1895 )
State v. . Packer , 80 N.C. 439 ( 1879 )
State v. . Lanier , 88 N.C. 658 ( 1883 )
State v. . Dalton , 101 N.C. 680 ( 1888 )
State v. . Wallace , 94 N.C. 827 ( 1886 )
State v. . Partlow , 91 N.C. 550 ( 1884 )
State v. . Tomlinson , 77 N.C. 528 ( 1877 )
State v. . Eaves , 106 N.C. 752 ( 1890 )
State v. . Bynum , 117 N.C. 749 ( 1895 )
State v. . Snow , 117 N.C. 778 ( 1895 )
State v. . Hicks , 143 N.C. 689 ( 1907 )
State v. Piner. , 141 N.C. 760 ( 1906 )
State v. Powell. , 141 N.C. 780 ( 1906 )
State v. McLean , 121 N.C. 589 ( 1897 )
State v. Stewart. , 216 Mo. App. 644 ( 1925 )
Norwood v. Lassiter. , 132 N.C. 52 ( 1903 )
Rabon v. Atlantic Coast Line R. R. Co. , 149 N.C. 59 ( 1908 )
State v. . R. R. , 122 N.C. 1052 ( 1898 )
Allen v. . McPherson , 168 N.C. 435 ( 1915 )
State v. . Harris , 119 N.C. 811 ( 1896 )
State v. . Simmons , 143 N.C. 613 ( 1907 )