Case ID: sd_46/html/0060-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

STATE, Respondent, v. GRAVDAHL, Appellant.
    (190 N. W. 555.)
    (File No. 5010.
    Opinion filed November 18, 1922.)
    Intoxicating Liquors — Information—Omission of Purchaser’s Name Does Not Make Information Insufficient to State Offense.
    The fact that an information for selling liquor did not name the persons sold to, but merely alleged the sale to “other persons,” does not render it demurrable.
    Appeal from Circuit Court, Roberts County; Hon. Eranic Anderson, Judge.
    Oscar Gravdahl was convicted of selling intoxicating liquor's,, and he appeals.
    Affirmed.
    
      
      Howard Babcock, of Sisseton, for Appellant.
    
      Byron S. Payne, Attorney General, and E. D. Roberts, Assistant Attorney General, for Respondent.
   PORREY, J.

Defendant was convicted on an information which charges that on a certain specified date he sold and furnished intoxicating liquors to “other persons,” without naming any person in particular. Defendant demurred to. the information on the ground that it does not set out the name of the person or persons to whom the intoxicating liquor was sold. This demurrer was overruled, and such ruling is assigned as error.

It is the contention of appellant that the information does not inform him oí the particular offense against which he must defend; that under this information he might be tried for more than one offense or on any one of several offenses. The questions presented by appellant on this appeal are precisely the same as the questions presented in the case of State v. Blair, 186 N. W. 961, recently decided by this court. And upon the authority of that case the judgment and order appealed from in this case are affirmed.

ANDERSON, J., not sitting.

Note — Reported in 190 N. W. 555. See American Key-Numbered Digest, Intoxicating Liquors, Key-No. 219, 23 Cyc. 232, 233, 15 R. C. L. 387.

Authorities discussing the question as to whether indictment or information for unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors must state name of person to whom, sale is made, are collected in note in 23 L. R. A. (N. S.) 581.