State v. Gilman

SNYDER, President :

At the March term, 1889, of the Circuit Court of Barbour county, the grand jury found an indictment in which it is charged that J. 0. Gilman, in said county, did unlawfully, and without a license therefor, “sell, offer, and expose for sale, and solicit and receive orders for, and keep in his possession for another, spirituous liquors, wine, porter, ale, beer, and drink of a like nature,” etc. The defendant moved the court to quash the indictment; which motion being overruled, he pleaded not guilty, and thereupon the case was tried by a jury. There was a verdict of.guilty,…