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4 Ind. 606

State v. Burgess

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided December 31, 1853

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1853-12-31

<p>To authorize the issuing of process under s. 3, p. 385, R. S. 1852, for the apprehension of a person accused of retailing spirituous liquor without license, the testimony should show the name of the person to whom the liquor was sold, or that his name is unknown.</p>

Decided 1853-12-31

Perkins, J.

¶1This was a proceeding on the part of the prosecuting attorney, instituted in April, 1853, under section 3, p. 385, of vol. 2, R. S. 1852, to establish, ex parte, before the Tippecanoe Court of Common Pleas, the charge of retailing without license against the defendant, Burgess, and cause him to be arrested and put on trial upon said charge. The Court heard the testimony adduced in support of the accusation, and refused to order the arrest upon it.

¶2The testimony was as follows:

¶3E. T. Townley swore “that the above defendant sold spirituous liquors up to the 7th of March last, and that he sold ten different times from the 1st of December to the said 7th of March by a less quantity than a quart, and to different persons.”

¶4This was all the testimony offered. It was insufficient, *607if for no other reason, because it did not show the names of the persons to whom the selling took place, or show them to be unknown.

L. Reilly, for the state.W. F. Lane, for the defendant.Per Curiam.

¶5The judgment is affirmed.

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