Long v. State

At the September term, 1875, of the court below, the appellant was indicted, upon a charge of having *134■ sold, unlawfully, one gill of intoxicating liquor, on a certain day, to a certain person, at a certain price, the appellant not then and there having license to sell such liquor, in a less quantity than a quart at a time.

To this indictment, the appellant filed a plea in abatement, in which he alleged, in substance, that the State of Indiana ought not to have and maintain said cause of action against him, for that said indictment, upon which the State proposed to put him upon trial, was never…