Calhoun v. Commonwealth

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Carroll

Reversing.

The appellant, Calhoun, was indicted in the Washington Circuit Court for an alleged violation of section one of an act of the Legislature passed in 1912. The section reads as follows:

“That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to purchase or procure for another spirituous, vinous, malt or other intoxicating liquors, mixtures or decoctions either as the agent of the buyer or the agent of the seller of said liquors, mixtures or decoctions, either for or without compensation in any county, district, precinct, town or city where…