Reich v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Indictment. Evidence. Before Judge Craweokd. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1879 Reich was indicted for selling liquor to a minor, one O. B. Lloyd. The indictment charged that on April 20th, 1879, Reich did “sell to one O. B. Lloyd, a minor son of Mary E. Lloyd, a certain quantity of spirituous liquors, to-wit: one half gill, without first obtaining the authority of the said Mary E. Lloyd, the mother of said minor, O. B. Lloyd.”
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Criminal law. Indictment. Evidence. Before Judge Craweokd. Muscogee Superior Court. May Term, 1879 Reich was indicted for selling liquor to a minor, one O. B. Lloyd. The indictment charged that on April 20th, 1879, Reich did “sell to one O. B. Lloyd, a minor son of Mary E. Lloyd, a certain quantity of spirituous liquors, to-wit: one half gill, without first obtaining the authority of the said Mary E. Lloyd, the mother of said minor, O. B. Lloyd.” No demurrer was filed to' this indictment, but a special plea in abatement to the effect that T. J. S. Kimbrough, W. R. Bedell, and G. W. Yarbrough…
1Opinion of the Court
Jackson, Justice.
1. In this case no demurrer was made to the bill of indictment, and therefore the ruling in the cases of Newman vs. The State and of Heyman vs. The State does not control it. The evidence is that the minor had no guardian, that his father was dead, and that his mother gave him no leave to buy, and the grocer no leave to sell him, spirituous liquors.
No motion was made for a new trial, and the case turns purely upon exceptions to rulings of the court. These are confusedly set out, to say the least, but we will dispose of them as wc gather them with some difficulty from the bill…
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