Blair v. State

Blandford, Justice.

1. The plaintiff in error was indicted for selling spirituous liquors without a license. He filed a plea to the effect that in that court he had been formerly tried and convicted of the same offence. The plea was demurred to, and the court sustained the demurrer. We think the court was right in sustaining the demurrer. The plea contained very little of what is essential to a plea of a former conviction. No record of the former trial and conviction was set out. The former judgment was not set out, nor the term at which it was rendered. No such plea has been allowed in any…