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5 Ind. 516

Howard v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided December 9, 1854

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1854-12-09

<p>On the trial of a complaint for retailing, under the liquor act of 1853, the Court instructed the jury that if they should find that the defendant sold, &c., a spirituous liquor by a less quantity, &c., in, &c., since, &c., without license, they should find him guilty. Held, that retailing for sacramental, mechanical, chemical, medicinal, or culinary purposes, being authorized by the act, and there being some evidence to show that the selling was for some of the excepted purposes, the instruction was erroneous.</p>

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Decided 1854-12-09

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Perkins, J.

¶1Complaint against Samuel Howard for retailing. Conviction and fine. The Court instructed the jury, that if they found that “the defendant sold to Payton H. Barkley a spirituous liquor by a less quantity than one gallon, in Decatur county, since the 19th day of March, 1853, without license, they should find him guilty,” &c.

¶2The statute (Laws of 1853, p. 87,) enacts that no person shall retail spirituous liquors, “ except for sacramental, mechanical, chemical, medicinal, or culinary purposes, without,” &c. For those specified purposes the party may retail *517without license, and the instruction should have so informed the jury. It was for them to say, under the evidence in the case, whether the selling complained of was for any of the excepted purposes. There was some evidence tending to show that such was the fact.

O. B. Hord, J. R. Coverdill, and C. S. Parrish, for the appellant.M. J. Williams, for the state.

¶3Per Curiam.—The judgment is reversed. Cause remanded, &c.

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