Ross v. State

In this case the appellant was indicted, tried *496and convicted for an unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor to William Lankford, Jr., who was, at the time of such sale, under the age of twenty-one years. From the judgment of conviction he has appealed to this court, and has here assigned as error the overruling of his motion for a new trial.

The first contention of the'appellant is, that there is a fatal variance between the indictment and the evidence in the cause. The supposed variance consists in this : It is charged in the indictment that the sale was made to William Lankford, Jr., while the…