Forgy v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner

Affirming.

Appellant was charged in a warrant with the unlawful sale of intoxicating liquor by knowingly selling Jamaica ginger containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol, and under such circumstances as that he might reasonably deduce that the purchaser expected to use the same for beverage purposes.

On his trial in the quarterly court he was convicted, and again upon his trial on appeal to the circuit court, and being dissatisfied prosecutes this appeal.

The evidence discloses that he sold at one time two bottles of Jamaica ginger to an…