Henderson v. State

This was a prosecution for retailing intoxicating liquor without a license.

The essential portion of the indictment was as follows:

“ The grand jury of Hamilton county, in the State of Indiana, * * * charge, that Phineas C. Henderson, late of said county, on the 20th day of August, A. D. 1877, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully sell to Luther Swain one gill of intox*297ieating liquor, at and for the price of ten cents, he, the said Phineas C. Henderson, not then and there being licensed by the hoard of commissioners of Hamilton county, Indiana, to vend intoxicating…