Case Name: The State v. John Cronin
Court: Supreme Court of Texas
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1873
Citations: 39 Tex. 171
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. John Cronin.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Reports
Volume: 39
Pages: 171–171

Head Matter:
The State v. John Cronin.
An indictment for selling intoxicating liquors to a minor of scholastic age is - defective when it fails to charge the defendant as being a dealer in in- - toxicating liquors.
Appeal from Matagorda. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Burkhart.
Wm. Alexander, Attorney-General, for appellant.
Stratton & Thorp and McCamly, for appellee.

Opinion:
Ogden, P. J.
The indictment in this case is defective, in not charging the defendant as being a dealer in intoxicating liquors. The prohibition of the law has reference to those only who are dealing in intoxicating liquors as a business, who keep open and public houses for that pur- • pose, where youths might be induced to congregate and contract habits of drunkenness, without the knowledge or consent of their parents or guardians. The court' therefore did not err in sustaining the exceptions to the - indictment, and the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.