Foster v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Hot Springs Circuit Court. Hon. J. B. Wood, Circuit Judge. To convict on this charge the proof must sustain the allegations. Gantt's Digest, Section zóop, is in part as follows : “ If any person shall sell to or buy for any minor, intoxicating spirits of any kind, without,” etc. Under this section the defendant would, from , the evidence, be guilty beyond a doubt. This section was repealed by implication by Act of March 8, z8pp, Sec. zp.
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APPEAL from Hot Springs Circuit Court. Hon. J. B. Wood, Circuit Judge. To convict on this charge the proof must sustain the allegations. Gantt's Digest, Section zóop, is in part as follows : “ If any person shall sell to or buy for any minor, intoxicating spirits of any kind, without,” etc. Under this section the defendant would, from , the evidence, be guilty beyond a doubt. This section was repealed by implication by Act of March 8, z8pp, Sec. zp. Redmond v. State, 36 Ark., 60. The defendant was indicted under said last named act. Mansfield's Digest, Section z8j8. It is in part as follows:…
1Opinion of the CourtCockrill, C. J.
The appellant was indicted for selling liquor to a minor and was convicted. The proof was that the minor, not wishing to involve the whisky sellers in trouble by making a purchase directly from any of them, gave the appellant, whom he met on the- street in the town of Malvern, fifty cents and requested him to go and purchase whisky for him. Pie took the money, purchased the liquor for the minor with it at a saloon in which he was not employed or interested, returned and delivered it to the minor. The appellant was an old acquaintance of the minor, and was himself an employe in a saloon.
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2Cases cited6 opinions
- Winchester v. HowardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Young v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1877
- Johnson v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1876
- Siegel v. PeopleIllinois Supreme Court · 1883
- Walton v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1878
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Bobo v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1912
- Burrow v. Hot SpringsSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1908
- Dale v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1909
- Hunter v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1895
- Payne v. State ex rel. City of BoonevilleSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1916
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