State v. Loyd

This was an indictment, found at the Fall term, 1848, of the Decatur Circuit Court.

J. S. Scobey, for the state. A. Davison, for the defendant.

The charge in the indictment is, that the defendant, on the 1st of June, 1848, at, &c., not being licensed, &c., sold a certain spirituous liquor to a person to the grand jurors unknown, to be drunk in the yard of him, the defendant, contrary to the statute, &c.

At the Spring term, (13th of March,) 1849, the Court, on the defendant’s motion, dismissed the indictment.

The ground of the dismissal was the want of jurisdiction. At the time the indictment was…