Blair v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Liquor. Minors. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. March term, 1888. Dick Blair was tried on an accusation charging him with having sold spirituous liquors to a minor, without first obtaining. written authority of the parent or guardian of said minor.
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Criminal law. Liquor. Minors. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. March term, 1888. Dick Blair was tried on an accusation charging him with having sold spirituous liquors to a minor, without first obtaining. written authority of the parent or guardian of said minor. The State proved that defendant sold the liquor to the minor at the time charged; and that the minor had neither father nor mother, both having died before he got the liquor, and had no guardian, but worked for himself and spent his own money. The defendant introduced no evidence and-made no statement. He elected to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
The statute (code, §4540a) makes no exception as to minors whose parents are dead, and who have no guardians. It was suggested in the brief of counsel that this minor was his own guardian. If that be true in a legal sense, and his own act as guardian would be equivalent to that of any other guardian, he should have given the liquor dealer authority in writing to furnish the forbidden beverage. Perhaps if he had taken time to prepare such a writing, he would have concluded not to make the purchase, and in this way the law and the public would have had the benefit of his…
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