King v. State

This was an indictment for retailing spirituous liquors without license. The indictment is to the following effect:

That the defendant, on the eighteenth of August, eighteen hundred and forty-nine, at the county of Jefferson aforesaid, not being then and there licensed, according to the laws in force, to vend spirituous liquors by retail, did then and there sell spirituous liquors to one Joseph Willoughby to be drunk in the out-house of him the said John King then and there situate, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the…