Brow v. State

The first question presented in this record relates to the sufficiency of the indictment. This charges that the defendant did, on a day named, “ unlawfully sell to one Freeland G. Tubbs, knowing him to be in a state of intoxication, a certain intoxicating liquor, at and for the price of ten cents, he, the said Freeland G. Tubbs, being then and there, at the time said intoxicating liquor was sold to him as aforesaid, in a state of intoxication.”

*134The insistence of the appellant is that the indictment is fatally defective, because it fails to charge the quantity of liquor sold, and that it was…