Shepler v. State

This was a prosecution against a druggist for selling intoxicating liquor on Sunday without a prescription from a physician, in violation of the provisions of section 2099, R. S, 1881.

The indictment charged “ that Frank Shepler, on the 6th day of June, in the year 1886, at and in the county of Wells, in the State of Indiana, did then and there unlawfully sell to James M. Waid certain intoxicating liquor, to wit, one-half pint of intoxicating liquor, at and for the price of twenty-five cents, the said 6th day of June being Sunday, and the said Frank Shepler being then and there a druggist, he,…