Case Name: The State v. Hass
Court: Iowa Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Iowa
Decision Date: 1867-04-23
Citations: 22 Iowa 193
Docket Number: 
Parties: The State v. Hass.
Judges: 
Reporter: Iowa Reports
Volume: 22
Pages: 193–193

Head Matter:
The State v. Hass.
Indictment! intoxicating liquors. In an indictment under section 1561, Revision, 1860, for causing a nuisance by the selling, or keeping with intent to sell, intoxicating liquors, it is not sufficient to merely charge that the defendant used and kept a place for the purpose of selling such liquors. It should be averred that he either had sold liquors at the placo mentioned or kept them there for the purpose of selling.
Appeal from Iowa District Cov/rt.
Tuesday, April 23.
A sufficient statement of facts will be found in tbe opinion of the court.
J. II. Murphy <& Bro. for the appellant.
F. F. Bissell, Attorney-General, for the State.

Opinion:
Lowe, Ch. J.
The defendant was tried and convicted, under section 1561 of the Revision, for producing or causing a nuisance, in the matter, as charged in the indictment, of using and keeping a piace or grocery for the purpose of selling intoxicating liquors.
The indictment does not allege that he had sold liquors, nor that he had them in his grocery with intent to sell, but simply that he used and'kept a place for the purpose of selling. This, without more, does not complete the offense, or amount to a violation of the law. It should appear, and thus be averred, that he either had sold liquors at the place mentioned, or kept them there for the purpose of selling. For this defect in the indictment a demurrer was filed, but overruled. The same objection is renewed in this court, which we deem well taken, and the judgment will be
Reversed.