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Magistrates may annul licences held by persons convicted of misdemeanor or any offence of a higher nature.
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8. If any person licensed to sell beer, cider, or spirits by retail shall, during the continuance of such licence or licences, be convicted of any misdemeanor, or of any offence of a higher nature, . . . then and in every such case it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the peace within whose jurisdiction such person shall be licensed to sell spirits or beer, assembled at any quarter sessions or adjournment thereof, if they shall so think fit, by order in open court made upon due notice, to annul the licence held by such person; and if any such person whose licence or licences shall be so annulled and on whom a notice shall have been served of the same being annulled, signed by the said magistrates or any two of them, shall sell by retail any spirits or beer, every such person shall be subject to the same penalties as persons selling beer, cider, or spirits without having obtained a licence for that purpose are by law liable.
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