Tinker v. State

Indictment for selling vinous or spirituous liquors, without license, and contrary to law. Trial on agreed facts, showing that the defendant sold one pint of whiskey in Jackson county, on August 21, 1890, to Joseph Barly, and received payment therefor; that the liquor so sold constituted an original package, which had been shipped from Tennessee to the defendant in Jackson county, Alabama; that defendant received and sold it in the original package, as the agent of the owner, and that neither the defendant nor the owner of the liquor had license to sell vinous or spirituous liquors in said…