Case Name: Kinser v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1857-12-03
Citations: 9 Ind. 543
Docket Number: 
Parties: Kinser v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 9
Pages: 543–543

Head Matter:
Kinser v. The State.
An information for retailing is fatally defective if it does not aver that the selling charged was not within any of the exceptions of the statute.
APPEAL from the Tippecanoe Court of Common Pleas.
Thursday, December 3.
E. H. Brackett and J. O'Brian, for the appellant.
D. P. Vinton, J. L. Miller and _D. C. Chipman, for the state.

Opinion:
Perkins, J.
Information for retailing. Conviction and fine.
The information did not aver that the liquor was not sold for medicinal, &c., purposes.
This information was bad, according to the opinion of a majority of the judges in Beebe v. The State, 6 Ind. R. 501. It was there held, by three of the four judges, that the agency portion of the liquor law of 1855 was void; and that every person had a right to retail for the purposes specified in the exceptions to the' statute.
Under this decision, it follows, according to Brutton v. The State, 4 Ind. R. 601, 602, 603, that the information was fatally defective in not negativing that the selling charged was within the exceptions in the statute.
Per Curiam.
The judgment is reversed. Cause remanded to be dismissed.