This case is about slaves or slavery.
| Year: | 1859 |
| Citation: | 14 Md. 184 |
| Jurisdiction: | Maryland |
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| Short Summary: | Using another case, Franklin v. State, to interpret previous court decisions in regard to a similar act. This sale had to deal with sale of liquor to a slave, while as this indictment has to do with sale of liquor to a child. Therefore, the phraseology of "without the written order" is equivalent to the "then and there" requirement of the other act. The indictment stood. Note that the dissent says "I take it that this law was designed to do good and to work, as far as practicable, a reform of a great evil--the demoralization of youth and negroes by the use of intoxicating drinks. I cannot, however, suppose that its authors purposed to accomplish this end by a violation of the Constitution of the State; nor, do I think, in its passage, the Legislature has, in anywise, usurped forbidden power." |
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| Full name: | Thos. Parkinson vs. The State of Maryland |
| Court: | Court of Appeals of Maryland |