Dyer v. People

An indictment was presented by the grand jury against plaintiff in error, charging, in the first count, the sale of intoxicating liquor to an intoxicated person, and in the second, to the same person, averring that he was in the habit of becoming intoxicated. On a trial before the court and a jury, defendant was found guilty under the first count. After overruling a motion for a new trial, the court sentenced him to pay a fine of $20, and to be imprisoned ten days in the common jail of Shelby county.

It is first urged that the person to whom the liquor was sold was described in the indictment…