Gill v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Liquor. Minors. Parent and child. Before Judge Smith. Muscogee superior court. May term, 1890. Indictment for selling liquor to a minor without written authority first obtained, and in a second count for permitting the same to be done by a clerk in his employ.
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Criminal law. Liquor. Minors. Parent and child. Before Judge Smith. Muscogee superior court. May term, 1890. Indictment for selling liquor to a minor without written authority first obtained, and in a second count for permitting the same to be done by a clerk in his employ. The defendant admitted that he sold liquor to the minor only after the 1st of February, 1889. There was no evidence that he sold any before that date, the testimony for the State being that the minor drank liquor in the bar-room of which the defendant was one of the proprietors, several times during 1889 — once during the…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The indictment was under section 4540(a) of the code, which reads as follows : “No person or persons, by himself or another, shall sell, or cause to be sold, or furnished, or permit any other person, or persons, in his, her, or their employ, to sell, or furnish any minor or minors, spirituous or intoxicating, or malt liquors of any kind, without first obtaining written authority from the parent or guardian of such minor, or minors, and such person, or persons, so offending shall, on conviction, be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the code.” This statute is a…
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