State v. Jacks

Indictment for retailing without license. Indictment quashed. The indictment charges that “ Thomas Jacks, on the 14th day of November, 1875, at,” etc., “ did then and there, unlawfully, for the purpose of gain, sell intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time, to one James Cornell, he, the said Thomas Jacks, not being then and there licensed to sell intoxicating liquors in a less quantity than a quart at a time.” The objections to the indictment were, that it did not state the quantity nor the price of the liquor sold.

It was held, in Divine v. The State, 4 Ind. 240, and in…