State v. Watson

Indictment for vending spirituous liquors by retail without license.

■ The indictment charges that the defendant, at, &c., did unlawfully barter and sell a quantity of spirituous liquor by a less .quantity than a quart at a time, to wit, one half pint of whiskey, to one J. L. for the sum of six and a fourth cents, he the said defendant then and there not being licensed according to law to vend spirituous liquors by retail.

The indictment is founded on the 56th section of the act relative to crime and punishment. Rev. Code of 1831. That act provides, that every person not being licensed…