Howell v. State

Hall, Justice.

The defendant was tried and found guilty of selling spirituous liquors in quantities less than a gallon without first taking and subscribing the oath required by law. This is one of the counts in the indictment on which the jury based their finding. The other count on which they found charged him with “ selling and vending a certain quantity of intoxicating bitters,” under the name of “ patent medicine,” and also a certain quantity of intoxicating *226liquor u within two miles of the male academy,” and within the same distance of the “ female academy, at Alpharetta,” in the county…