Schlicht v. State

Appellant was indicted, at the February term, 1876, of the court below, for an alleged violation of section 12, of “An act to regulate and license the sale of spiritous, vinous and malt and other intoxicating liquors,” etc., approved March 17th, 1875. 1 R. S. 1876, p. 869. The indictment charged that the appellant, on the 7th day of August, 1875, at Ripley county, Indiana, unlawfully sold one gill of spiritous liquor, commonly called whiskey, to one Job Caster, at and for the price of ten cents,—he, the appellant, “not then and there having a license so to do.”

Appellant moved the court below…