Meier v. State

Indictment for retailing without license.

Conviction, fine of twenty-five dollars, and appeal to this court.

A motion to quash the indictment was overruled, and exception taken.

The charge in the indictment is as follows:

“ That one Conrad Meier, late of said county, on the 19th day of May, 1877, at said county and State aforesaid, did then and there unlawfully sell, for the purpose of gain, for ten cents, spirituous and intoxicating liquor, in a less quantity than a quart at a time, to wit, two gills thereof, he, the said Conrad Meier, not having then and there procured a license therefor from…