Townsend v. State

Indictment for retailing spirituous liquors without licence. Plea, not guilty. On the’trial, the defendant presented the following licence, to wit: “State of Indiana, Morgan county, January term, 1827. Ordered by the board of county justices, that Silas Townsend he and he is hereby authorised to retail spirituous liquors, in Morgan county, for three months from the first day of January, 1827; the said Silas Townsend having paid the sum of fifty cents to the treasurer for the said term. Witness, George, H. Buler, cllc.” Which licence, it is said, covered the time when the retailing of the…