State v. Waxman

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Swayze, J.

The defendant was convicted of illegal sales of liquor. He did not personally make the sales, hut the state claimed that they were made by his employes with his assent. The court charged that if the jury believed that the .sales were made by either of the men alleged to be employes, “and made with the knowledge or what a reasonable man would know to he the act of "Waxman, he is responsible for the acts of these men. In other words, if he had knowledge that it was going on, he would he responsible, or if he had reason to know — he can’t close…