Legal Opinion

Dunn v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided February 11, 1889PublishedCited by 17 opinions

Criminal law. Liquor. Sales." Before Judge Richard H. Clark. Douglas superior court. January adjourned term, 1888. Reported in the decision.

1Opinion of the Court

Bleckley, Chief Justice.

For the purposes of the present casé, we may assume that the local option law for Douglas ' county was constitutional, and was a valid, operative statute within the county of Douglas, and still we think the offence of selling whisky contrary to that statute was not committed, according to the evidence set forth in the record. The material portion of the evidence was to the following effect: Kenny & Werner were liquor dealers in the city of Atlanta, Fulton county, and kept their store and stock in that city. Dunn was their agent and traveling salesman. He went to…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Housatonic Railroad v. Lee & Hudson RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1875
  2. State v. HughesWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1883
  3. Sarbecker v. StateWisconsin Supreme Court · 1886
  4. Weil v. GoldenMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1886

3Cited by17 opinions

  1. State v. ShieldsSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1903
  2. Cable Co. v. McElhoeIndiana Court of Appeals · 1915
  3. State v. RosenbergerSupreme Court of Missouri · 1908
  4. Loud & Beugnot v. Pritchett & Co.Supreme Court of Georgia · 1898
  5. Merrill v. StateIndiana Supreme Court · 1911

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