Haver v. State

Indictment against Ilavcr for retailing. Motion to quash overruled, and exception. Trial and conviction.

Alfred Reed, for the appellant. John L. Miller, for the State.

The indictment charges that the defendant “did unlawfully sell intoxicating liquors to John B. Bunnell, in a less quantity than a quart, to wit, two glasses,” &c. The objection to the indictment is, that it does not set forth the quantity sold. In Brutton v. The State, 4 Ind. 601, it was held, under the statute of 1853, that an information was defective which charged that the defendant sold by less quantity than a gallon, without…