State v. Kidd

Affidavit and information against the defendant, the appellee, for an unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor,, alleged to have been made in the city of Seymour, on the day of a municipal election. The defendant pleaded “not guilty,” and upon a trial by the court was acquitted and', discharged.

Evidence was offered by the State for the purpose of showing a sale as charged, made in said city on the day and during the holding of an election “in said city, on the 16th day of August, 1879, for the purpose of taking a vote of the qualified voters of said city to determine whether said city would…