State v. Gowgill

This was a prosecution against Andrew Gowgill, the appellee, for selling and giving intoxicating liquor to a minor. The indictment contained two counts.

*600The first charged a sale of a less quantity than a quart to one Oliver Myers, a person under the age of twenty-one years.

The second charged the appellee with having given a similar quantity of intoxicating liquor to the same person.

Upon the appellee’s motion the indictment was quashed, and he was discharged. Error is assigned only upon the decision of the court quashing the indictment.

Neither count of the indictment alleged that the appellee…