State v. McAdoo

Philips, C.

At the June term, 1879, the defendant was indicted for selling liquor as a druggist, and for permitting the same to be drunk on his premises. The indictment is as follows : “ The grand jurors, etc., present, that one James McAdoo, late of the county aforesaid, on or about the 10th day of June, 1879, at and within Caldwell county, being then and there a dealer in drugs and medi*217cines, then and there unlawfully did sell to one L. B. Clev-enger, and divers other persons, to these jurors unknown, intoxicating liquors in a certain quantity less than one gallon, to-wit: one gill of whisky…