Kinnebrew v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Principal and accessory. Master and servant. Criminal law. Evidence. Liquor. Witness. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. June term, 1887. Kinnebrew was tried on an accusation of unlawfully selling liquor. The evidence for the State showed as follows : Twice on one evening three persons went to defendant’s wine-room, and one of them called for “ nerve tonic.” They were furnished with rye whiskey by the defendant, and paid him for it.
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Principal and accessory. Master and servant. Criminal law. Evidence. Liquor. Witness. Before Judge Van Epps. City court of Atlanta. June term, 1887. Kinnebrew was tried on an accusation of unlawfully selling liquor. The evidence for the State showed as follows : Twice on one evening three persons went to defendant’s wine-room, and one of them called for “ nerve tonic.” They were furnished with rye whiskey by the defendant, and paid him for it. Three days later, two witnesses went to the same place twice in one evening, and bought rye whiskey, called “ nerve tonic,” from defendant’s barkeeper,…
1Opinion of the Court
Bleckley, Chief Justice.
Whether or not the common law rule that in misdemeanors there are no accessories before the fact, has been-abrogated in Georgia by statute, is not settled by any decision heretofore made by this court. In Hately vs. The State, 15 Ga. 348, as appears both from the report and the ‘ original record (which we have examined), there was no evidence either that Hately was present or that he pro-cured, counselled or commanded his cleric to do the unlawful act which constituted the misdemeanor, or knew anything about it. Moreover, the judgment rendered by this court, (which, as…
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