Closterman v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Lindsay:

This indictment charges that the appellant did unlawfully sell spirituous and vinous liquors, &c., “to James McCourt, he, the said *86James McOourt, Jr., then and there being a white person under the age of twenty-one years, and which said liquor so sold as aforesaid was * * * so sold by the said Benjamin Olosterman without *' "x'- * eithen the written consent of the father, mother or guardian of the said James Court, Jr., or either of them.”

It is objected that the description or identification of the minor to whom the liquor was sold is uncertain and…