Alexander v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1 district · 2 state decisions

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1. ““ ‘It is not sufficient to aver generally that the defendant did vend spirituous liquors in a quantity of a quart and over,’ without stating at whose house or establishment, or to whom the vending took place, or some other fact tending to identify the transaction. This is the true principle of the certainty that is required. ‘The transaction’ of which the party is accused must be identified with reasonable certainty-. The indictment, in a case like the present, should name the' person to whom the liquor was sold; or if the name of the person to whom the liquor was sold was unknown to the grand jurors, then other circumstances, tending to identify the transaction, should be alleged, so that the accused may know what he will be called upon to answer, and so that, in case of conviction or acquittal, he may be able to plead the judgment in bar of another prosecution for the same offense.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fehringer v. People