Wood v. State

Decided November 15, 1863

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1863-11-15

<p>Criminal Law and Practice. — An information for retailing, without license, is not sufficient if it merely aver the sale of one pint of whisky, without averring that it was sold in a less quantity than one quart.</p> <p>Statutes Construed. — The temperance law of 1859 prescribes no penalty against the sale of intoxicating liquor, in quantities of one quart or more, on Sunday.</p>

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently November 1879

1 state decisions

Relies on Sohn v. State · State v. Thomasson

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Decided 1863-11-15

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Per Curiam.

¶1The information in this case is against John Wood for selling “ one pint of whisky on Sunday.” the information is not good, as a charge of selling less than a quart under the general license law; because, though the defendant is charged with selling one pint, still, if he sold a barrel, be sold a pint, because a pint is contained in a barrel. Struckman v. The State, at this term.

¶2If the information should be held as charging tbe sale of more than a quart, then there is no penalty for making such *277sale on Sunday. The State v. Thomasson, 19 Ind. 99. The prosecution should have been under a different statute. Sohn v. The State, 18 Ind. 389.

D. E. Palmer, for the appellant.Oscar B. Hord, Attorney General, for the State.

¶3The judgment is reversed. Cause remanded to be dismissed.