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A Treatise on the Laws Regulating the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors
A Treatise on the Laws Regulating the Manufacture and Sale of Intoxicating Liquors Author:Henry Campbell Black General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1892 Original Publisher: West Pub. Co. Subjects: Liquor laws Law / General Law / Commercial / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of th... more »is book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: § 14. Gin. This is an alcoholic liquor distilled from rye and barley and flavored with juniper berries. It is not necessary to allege in an indictment, M or for the jury to find as a fact," that gin is a spirituous or intoxicating liquor, as that is a matter of common information. "Everybody who knows what gin is," says the court in Massachusetts, "knows not only that it is a liquor, but also that it is intoxicating. And it might as well have been objected that the jury could not find that gin was a liquor, without evidence that it was not a solid substance, as that they could not find that it was intoxicating, without testimony to show it to be so. No juror can be supposed to be so ignorant as not to know what gin is. Proof, therefore, that the defendant sold gin is proof that he sold intoxicating liquor. If what he sold was not intoxicating liquor, it was not gin." M And any person is competent to testify that certain liquor was gin. M § 16. Rum. Bum is defined as a kind of intoxicating liquor distilled from oane juice, or from the scummings of the boiled juice, or from treacle or molasses, or from the lees of former distillations.87 That it is a spirituous liquor and intoxicating is a matter of common knowledge which the courts will notice judicially. Hence an averment in an indictment that the defendant sold "rum" is sufficient, without an allegation that it was a spirituous or intoxicating liquor." Nor need the jury find this fact, in order to sustain a conviction.88 It is also ruled that rum is w...« less