Pitts v. State

1. While jurors must not convict without plain and manifest proof of guilt, and while circumstances which merely authorize a conjecture of guilt are not sufficient to warrant a conviction of crime, still the issue as to whether one who receives money and in return therefor purchases intoxicating liquor for another is the agent of the seller or the agent of the purchaser is at last one of fact for solution by the jury. One may be a violator of the law prohibiting the sale of intoxicants as well when theintoxicant sold by him is in fact the property of another as if it were his own (Hendrix v.…