State v. Zeitler

Prosecution for unlawfully selling intoxicating liquor, commenced before a justice of the peace.

The affidavit is in the following words :

“August 2d, 1878. Now comes Julia Whitinger, and files her affidavit, that, on the 1st day of July, 1878, at and within said county, John Zeitler did unlawfully sell spirituous, vinous and malt liquors to Adam Whitinger, a person in the habit of being intoxicated, for the price of five cents; said defendant having received notice in writing, of September 12th, 1877, from the wife of said Adam, that he was in the habit of being intoxicated.”

Conviction before…