Case Name: PEOPLE v. DIETERICH
Court: Michigan Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Michigan
Decision Date: 1905-12-30
Citations: 142 Mich. 527
Docket Number: Docket No. 238
Parties: PEOPLE v. DIETERICH.
Judges: Grant, Blair, Ostrander, and Hooker, JJ., concurred.
Reporter: Michigan Reports
Volume: 142
Pages: 527–528

Head Matter:
PEOPLE v. DIETERICH.
'Intoxicating ’Liquors — Offenses—Information—Selling without License — Variance.
On a prosecution for engaging in the business of selling intoxicating liquors without having paid the tax, the people are not limited to the precise date laid in the information.
Exceptions before judgment from Emmet; Shepherd, J.
Submitted November 16, 1905.
(Docket No. 238.)
Decided December 30, 1905.
Gottlieb Dieterich was convicted of violating the liquor law. ’
Affirmed.
M. F. Guinon, for appellant.
Wade B. Smith, Prosecuting Attorney, for the people.

Opinion:
Montgomery, J.
The principal question in this case is whether the court ought to have charged that the jury must acquit the respondent, unless they were satisfied beyond a reasonable doubt that on the 11th day of October, 1904, the respondent was engaged in the business of selling intoxicating liquors by retail, without having paid the tax required by law to be paid upon such business; the 11th day of October being the date alleged in the information as the time when the offense was committed.
Defendant's counsel contended below, and contends here, that the prosecution was limited to the precise date named in the information. The circuit judge held otherwise. In this no error was committed. People v. Ten Elshof, 92 Mich. 167.
Complaint is also made of the admission of proof of previous sales to establish a substantive offense. The answer to this complaint is that the record very clearly shows that the testimony was not received by the court or tendered by the prosecutor as proof of a substantive offense. No error appears.
Judgment is affirmed.
Grant, Blair, Ostrander, and Hooker, JJ., concurred.