Brown v. State

This was an indictment of the defendant for retailing intoxicating liquor on Sunday. It charges that the defendant, on the 6th day of September, 1874, that being the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, at, etc., “ did then and there unlawfully sell to one James Quinlan, for the sum and price of twenty cents, two drinks of whiskey, the-said whiskey being then and there intoxicating liquor.”

There was a second count in the' indictment, which, on motion of the defendant, was quashed.

The defendant pleaded not guilty, and, upon trial, was convicted, and judgment was rendered on the…