Skinner v. State

Lumpkin, Justice.

The question, presented in this case is, whether or not '“lending” a pint of whiskey to another, to be consumed by the latter, who agrees to return, and does in fact return, to the “lender” another pint of the same kind of whiskey, it appearing that the transaction was made in the utmost good faith and with no criminal intention, amounts tO' a violation of a statute which forbids and makes penal the sale of spirituous liquors. We do not think it does.

There was no bargaining between them into which the element of trafficking entered. It was only an act of neighborly…