Brooks v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Chambers. Tried before the Hon. N. D. Denson. The appellants, William Brooks and James Griffin, were indicted, tried and convicted for selling liquor without a license.
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. Appeal from the Circuit Court of Chambers. Tried before the Hon. N. D. Denson. The appellants, William Brooks and James Griffin, were indicted, tried and convicted for selling liquor without a license. The cause was tried by the court upon an agreed statement of facts, which was as follows : “James Griffin, at the time of the alleged offense, was proprietor of a family grocery store in LaFayette, Chambers county, Alabama, and said Griffin and one James were proprietors of a retail whiskey store in Opelika, Lee county, Alabama. That William Brooks was the clerk in the grocery store of said…
1Opinion of the CourtHaralson, J.
If Brooks, the clerk, is guilty, so, under the facts, is Griffin, and vice versa; and whatever James, the partner of Griffin at Opelika, did in this matter, is the same as if done there, by Griffin in person. The act of Griffin & James, in selling the whiskey, *135was the act of Griffin.—Sellers v. The State, 99 Ala. 75; Perkins v. The State, 92 Ala. 66; Segars v. The State, 88 Ala. 146.
The principle upon which the guilt or innocence of the parties is to be detemined is, whether the sale was made, so as to pass the title to the whiskey, at LaFayette — within the prohibited district — or at…
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- Brown & Co. v. Adair & McCarty Bros.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1894
- DuBois v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1888
- Perkins v. StateSupreme Court of Alabama · 1890
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