Simpson v. State

Indictment for selling, intoxicating liquor to a minor.

*445The indictment charges that the defendant sold to one Thomas Harrington, whom the defendant well knew to be a minor, under the age of twenty-one years, a certain quantity of beer, for a sum named, “the said beer, so sold as aforesaid, being then and there intoxicating liquor.

Motion to quash overruled, .and conviction.

The objection made to the indictment is, that it does not allege the “beer” to have been either “spirituous, vinous, or malt liquor, or any intoxicating liquor whatever, which is used or may be used as a beverage.”

Hie first…