State v. Hunter

Hunter was indicted in the circuit court of New Madrid county, as a grocer, and on his motion, the court quashed the indictment. The State appealed.

The indictment charges, that “ he, the said William Hunter, then and there, did sell, retail, and deliver unto the said Silas Lee, ten pounds of nails without a grocer’s license, then being and continuing in force, him, the said William Hunter, then and there to authorize to exercise the trade and business of a grocer.”

This indictment is founded on the fourth section of the 1835, R. C. p. 292, and the second section of an passed in 1837, p. 64,…