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9 Ind. 543

Kinser v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided December 3, 1857

Indiana Supreme Court · decided 1857-12-03

<p>An information for retailing is fatally defective if it does not aver that the selling charged was not within any of the exceptions of the statute.</p>

Decided 1857-12-03

Perkins, J.

¶1Information for retailing. Conviction and fine.

¶2The information did not aver that the liquor was not sold for medicinal, &c., purposes.

¶3This information was bad, according to the opinion of a majority of the judges in Beebe v. The State, 6 Ind. R. 501. It was there held, by three of the four judges, that the agency portion of the liquor law of 1855 was void; and that every person had a right to retail for the purposes specified in the exceptions to the' statute.

¶4Under this decision, it follows, according to Brutton v. The State, 4 Ind. R. 601, 602, 603, that the information was fatally defective in not negativing that the selling charged was within the exceptions in the statute.

Per Curiam.

¶5The judgment is reversed. Cause remanded to be dismissed.

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