Galbreath v. State

Each of these defendants was separately indicted for unlawfully selling whiskey. By agreement the cases were consolidated and tried together. Each defendant was convicted and has appealed.

The first error assigned is that the Court should have sustained their respective motions to quash the indictments because they do not allege the name of the person who bought the whiskey alleged to have been sold by each defendant. These indictments allege the dates of sale.

The same insistence was made in State v. Staley, 71 Tenn. 565, and there held untenable, the Court saying that “it is the selling at…