Spielman v. State

In this case the defendant below was indicted in the Circuit Court for Washington County, for violating, in November, 1864, the license laws of this State. The indictment contains six counts, five of which charge him with a violation of the license law generally, but the second count, charges him with violating it, by selling general merchandise to William H. Beard. To this indictment a special plea was filed by the defendant below, setting forth that he, together with a certain Emanuel Bombarger, in May, 1864, obtained as partners a trader’s license, in and on which the name of each of the…