State v. Scallan

Appellant was convicted of the offense of selling intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes. The indictment, as amplified by a bill of particulars, was that the defendant, being the proprietor of a drug store, did sell in his drug store, fox-beverage purposes, four bottles of Jamaica ginger, a liquid or compound containing more than one-half of one per cent, (in fact about 90 per cent.) of alcohol by volume, and fit for use as a beverage and for intoxicating beverage purposes.

There are five bills of exception in the record. The first bill was reserved to the overruling of a motion to quash…