Hardin v. State

This case came on for trial in the county court of Putnam county, on an indictment found by the grand jury of that county, charging the accused with unlawfully selling spirituous liquors. There was an entire omission from the indictment of the following words embodied in the form prescribed by the •statute for such instruments, namely:, “contrary to the laws of said State, the good order, peace, and dignity thereof.” Before) arraignment and plea, the accused demurred to the indictment,, “because the same does not follow the form prescribed by th<u statute, and does not allege that the acts…