Booth

The plaintiff in error was convicted upon an information charging him with the violation of section 472 of Carter’s Annotated Code of Criminal Procedure of Alaska, which prescribes a penalty for selling liquor without a license. The information was as follows:

“J. Lindley Green, assistant United States attorney for the Third Division of the District Court of Alaska, informs the court: That the defendant, C. R. Booth, is guilty of the crime of engaging in the sale of intoxicating liquors without having procured a license of the District Court for the Third Division of the District of Alaska, or any division thereof, so to do. That said crime was committed as follows, to wit: That the said C. R. Booth, at Gird-wood-, in Kenai precinct, in-the Third Division o'f the District of Alaska, he, the said C. R. Booth, not having procured a license from the District Court for the District of Alaska, Third Division, or any division thereof, to engage in the sale of intoxicating liquors at retail, did, on the fifteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and eleven, engage in the sale of intoxicating liquors at retail, all con *802 trary to the form of the statute in such case made and provided…