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60 Ind. 307

Coverdale v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided May 15, 1878

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1878-05-15

<p>Liquor Law. — Retailing Without Liceme. — Indictment.—An indictment alleging that the defendant, “on,” etc., “at,” etc., “ did then and there sell to” a person named “ one gill of an intoxicating liquor, at and for the price of ten cents,” the defendant “not then and there being licensed, according to law, to vend intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, contrary,” etc., is sufficient.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently April 1922

2 state decisions

Relies on Hooper v. State · Simpson v. State · State v. Carpenter

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Decided 1878-05-15

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Perkins, J.

¶1Indictment for retailing without license. ' Motion to quash overruled; trial; conviction and fine, severally against each defendant; appeal by the defendant Coverdale, to this court.

¶2The only assignment of error in this court is, that the circuit court erred in overruling the motion to quash.

¶3• The indictment charges, that “ William Coverdale and Luther-Lebo, late of said county, on the 20th day of August, A. D. 1877, at said comity and State aforesaid, did then and there sell to Ananias Thompson, one gill of an *308intoxicating liquor, at and for the price of ten cents, they, the said William Coverdale and Luther Lebo, not then and there being licensed according to law to vend intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc.

¶4The indictment was sufficient. Simpson v. The State, 17 Ind. 444; Downey v. The State, 20 Ind. 37, 82; The State v. Carpenter, 20 Ind. 219; Hooper v. The State, 56 Ind. 153.

¶5The judgment below is affirmed, with costs.

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