Johnson v. State

Opinion of the court by

Mr. Chief Justice Howk.

The indictment in this case charged in substance that the appellant and one Fred Johnson, on the 1st day of November, 1880, at the county and State aforesaid, “did then and theré unlawfully sell intoxicating liquor, in a less quantity than a quart at a time, to-wit: two gills, to one John Wilson, at and for the price of five cents, - he, the said John Wilson, being then and there a person under the age of twenty-one years.”

A motion to quash the indictment having been overruled, and an exception saved to this ruling, each of the defendants, on…