State v. Webster

An indictment for selling liquor by small measure, Which prayrisge. that the defendant, did not obtain a license according, to the act concerning Inns ana Taverns, is msutlicient anu win ac qaaeaecuc^. m-- "

This indictment had been quashed by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the county of Somerset, for insufficiency, and was thereupon removed by the prosecutor for the state, into this Court by certiorari. The indictment was in the following words'? M Somerset County, ss. The grand inquest" for the state of New-Jersey, and for the body of the county of Somerset upoti their oath present: That James Webster late of the township of Bridgwater, in the said county of Somerset,, on the tweutyfifth day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, at the township of Bridgwater aforesaid in said county, and within the jurisdiction of this court, with force and arms, &zc. did sell, and knowingly cause and permit to be sold for his own account and benefit, to one Abraham Van Duyn, one half pint of ardent spirits, commonly called whiskey, the same being of less-measure than one quart; he the said James Webster, not having first obtained a license for that, purpose, from the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of said county of Somerset, in the manner directed by the act concerning Inns and Taverns, nor from the corporate authority of any city or borough, in which he resided, contrary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace of this state, the government, and dignity of the. samé.”