Holsclaw v. State

On the 16th day of October, 1886, this prosecution was commenced before a justice of the peace of Greene county, against the appellant, upon an affidavit, wherein it was charged that, on or abput the 15th day of October, 1886, at said county, said appellant “ did then and there unlawfully sell to Jacob R. Blaker and Thomas Terrell, each of whom was then and there a person under the age of twenty-one years, one-half pint of whiskey at and for the price of twenty-five cents, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc. Afterwards, on the same day, appellant appeared in person and by counsel…