Griffin v. State

1. An indictment for selling spirituous liquors without a license “from the authorities authorized by law to grant license for the sale of such liquors by retail ” is, under a local law authorizing the grant of a license to sell such liquors under certain conditions, sufficient though the indictment does not on its face expressly show that it is based on that law.

2. Even if the local law of Pike county regulating the sale of intoxicating liquors be unconstitutional, such an indictment is, as against a motion in arrest of judgment, sufficient, under the general law, to support a conviction of…