Legal Opinion

Wood v. State

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1863PublishedCited by 1 opinion

APPEAL from the Dekalb Common Pleas.

1Per curiam

The information in this case is against John Wood for selling “ one pint of whisky on Sunday.” the information is not good, as a charge of selling less than a quart under the general license law; because, though the defendant is charged with selling one pint, still, if he sold a barrel, be sold a pint, because a pint is contained in a barrel. Struckman v. The State, at this term.

If the information should be held as charging tbe sale of more than a quart, then there is no penalty for making such *277sale on Sunday. The State v. Thomasson, 19 Ind. 99. The prosecution should have been under a…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Sohn v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1862
  2. State v. ThomassonIndiana Supreme Court · 1862

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Arbintrode v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1879

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