Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1906 — AN IMPORTANT DECISION. [ARTICLE]

AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

Judge Cook, of Crawford county, handed down a decision last week that is of state importance. He decided that a wholesale liquor dealer was one who sold to retailers and that a person whose principal business is selling to consumers, no matter in what amount, is not a wholesaler. The decision was upon eight indictments against wholesale “blind tiger” men. On each indictment he found them guilty and fined them $25 and costs. Eighteen other indictments are pending against these same men. The liquor dealers admitted to selling to consumers but claimed they sold only in five gallon lots. The customers would buy five gallons and take it away a pint at a time. Judge Cook held the amount bought or carried away had nothing to do with the case so long as the purchaser was a consumer and the liquor dealer has no state or city license. —Evansville Courier.