State v. Guimbellot

Contrary to the interpretation which some persons have given it, our holding in State v. Viator, 229 La. 882, 87 So.2d 115, 116, was not that beer is non-intoxicating. In that case the court was reviewing convictions on the charge that each defendant had sold and delivered “beer to * * * a person 18 years of age”, and involved were two statutes *1051specifically dealing with the sale of intoxicants to minors. One of the statutes prohibited the selling of intoxicating or spirituous liquors to any person under the age of 21 (LRS 14:91, for the violation of which the defendants were charged). The…