State v. Miles
| Decision Date | 31 December 1853 |
| Citation | 4 Ind. 577 |
| Parties | The State v. Miles |
| Court | Indiana Supreme Court |
APPEAL from the Tippecanoe Court of Common Pleas.
The judgment is affirmed.
L. Reilly, for the state.
W. C. Wilson and W. F. Lane, for the appellee.
This was an information for retailing spirituous liquors without license. The information alleges that the defendant on, &c., at, &c., did unlawfully sell and retail spirituous liquors, directly and indirectly, without license, in a less quantity than one gallon, and sold the same to one Ralph Heath, to-wit, one drink, &c.
Upon the defendant's motion, the information was quashed.
We think the Court ruled correctly. The information contains no allegation of the price for which the liquor was sold. Without such averment, the facts constituting the offence are not properly stated. The information "must be direct and certain as it regards the party and the offence charged." R. S. 1852, vol. 2, p. 367. In our opinion, it must contain all the substantial requirements of an indictment at common law. We have decided that an indictment is defective for not alleging the price for which the liquor was sold. Divine v. The State, ante, p. 240. The judgment is affirmed.
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