Levy v. State

At the January term, 1853, of the Wayne Court of Common Pleas, an affidavit was filed charging Levy, (whose first name was to the affiant unknown,) with having unlawfully sold to William, Crawford, in Wayne township in that county, one pint of whisky, for 5 cents, not for mechanical or medicinal purposes.

The district attorney filed an information against Levy, by his full name, setting out an act passed in 1848, prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors in Wayne, Washington and Franklin townships in Wayne county, in any less quantity than ten gallons, except for mechanical or medicinal…