Johnson v. State

The indictment, in this case, charged, in ■substance, that the appellant and one Fred. Johnson, on the *1981st day. of November, 1880, at the county and State aforesaid, “did then and there unlawfully sell intoxicating liquor^ in a less quantity than a quart at a time, to wit, two gills, to-one John Wilson, at and for the price of five cents, he, the said John Wilson, being then and there a person under the-■age of twenty-one years.”

A motion to quash the indictment having been overruled^, and an exception saved to this ruling, each of the defendants,, on arraignments, entered a plea that he was…