State v. Ashcraft

The indictment against appellee, omitting the formal parts, charged that he, "on May 30, 1893, at Jay county, Indiana, did then and there unlawfully sell to Grant Kikendall, at and for the price of five cents, a less quantity than a quart at a time, to wit, one pint of certain intoxicating liquor, to wit, beer; he, the said William Ashcraft, not then and there having a license under the State law to sell intoxicating liquors.”

To this indictment a motion to quash was sustained *407upon the ground, as we are informed by the prosecuting attorney, that it did not state that the defendant did not have…