State v. Closser

This is an appeal by the State from the action of the lower court in sustaining the appellee’s motion to quash an affidavit against him which sought to charge appellee with a violation of §1 of the act approved March 6, 1911 (Acts 1911 p. 605). The affidavit, omitting the caption and-signature, reads as follows:

“John T. Willett, being duly sworn upon his oath, says that on the seventh day of September, 1911, at the county of Laporte and State of Indiana, one, Louis P. Closser, did then and there unlawfully, by his servant and agent, Hugh Closser, sell to one, John T. Willett, one pint of…