Campbell v. District of Columbia

RICHARDSON, Chief Judge.

Appellant was convicted of selling cigarettes to a minor under sixteen years of age in violation of the Act of Congress of February 7, 1891 (now Section 22 — 1120, Code of 1940) which in part provides: “No person shall sell, give, or furnish any cigar, cigarette, or tobacco in any of its forms to any minor under sixteen years of age.”

For more than thirty years appellant has operated a store in a residential section of Washington. He testified that when children came to the store to purchase cigarettes for their parents, bringing a note from the parent, he sold the…