Helfrick v. Commonwealth

The first error assigned in the petition is to the judgment of the hustings court overruling the defendant’s motion to quash the indictment for defects apparent on its face. The indictment charges that the defendant, Helfrick, on the 19th of September, 1877, did sell and deliver to one Warren L,. Wheelright, one drink of malt liquor, and unlawfully did, then and there, wilfully fail, immediately upon the sale of said drink of malt liquor, in the presence of the said Warren I,. Wheelright, to turn the crank of the proper register until the bell thereof *had struck once, and the indicator on…