Case Name: Ward v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Indiana
Jurisdiction: Indiana
Decision Date: 1874-11
Citations: 48 Ind. 293
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ward v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Indiana Reports
Volume: 48
Pages: 293–294

Head Matter:
Ward v. The State.
Erom the Porter Circuit Court.
T. J. Merrifield, W. Johnston, and II. Binnaman, for appellant.
J. O. Benny, Attorney General, for the State.

Opinion:
Biddle, J.
Indictment and conviction for selling liquor to a person who was in the habit of getting intoxicated.
A motion by the appellant to quash the indictment was overruled. This is assigned for error.
The indictment charges the appellant with selling " one pint of liquor, at and for the sum of ten cents." It contains no averment that the liquor was intoxicating. The statute prohibits the sale of " intoxicating liquors " only. We scarcely need to remark that there are many kinds of liquors which are not intoxicating. The indictment should have been quashed.
The judgment is reversed; the cause is remanded, with instructions to sustain the motion to quash the indictment.