Armstrong v. State

This is a criminal prosecution under what is commonly known as the Nicholson Law. It was commenced before a justice of the peace where the following affidavit was filed against the appellant:

“State of Indiana, Henry County, ss.: Comes now Ulysses S. Cook, who being duly sworn says, that on *567the 23d day of October, 1895, at Henry County, State of Indiana, one Pearl Armstrong was then and there a person engaged in the sale of spirituous, vinous, malt and other intoxicating liquors to be drunk as a beverage, in a certain room then and there situate, and did then and there unlawfully allow, suffer…