Wiles v. State

Wiles, the appellant was indicted in the Jefferson Criminal Circuit Court for selling one gill of intoxicating liquor at said county, on the first day of December, 1869, to George W. Ball, for ten cents, to be drunk, and which he suffered to be drunk in his house; “he, said Nicholas Wiles, not being then and there licensed, according to law, to sell intoxicating liquor by a less quantity than a quart at a time.”

A motion to quash the indictment was overruled. Plea, not guilty. The case was tried by the court, by agreement of the parties. The appellant was convicted and fined five dollars.…