Hamilton v. State

The indictment in this- case, with all the usual and necessary formality, charged the appellant, Hamilton, with having, on the 10th day of January, 1885, sold to ■one Beard intoxicating liquor, in a less quantity than a quart at a time, to wit, one gill of such liquor, at and for the price and sum of ten cents, without a license to so sell intoxicating liquor. The indictment was a printed blank with the term •of court, date, name of appellant, and charging part filled in with a pen, and the name of the prosecuting attorney, with the title of his office annexed, printed at the bottom instead…