Ritcher v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Appeal from the Circuit Court of Wilkinson County. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. George Ritcher was indicted by the grand jury of Wilkinson County for selling liquor to a minor. He was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and to be imprisoned in the county jail for ten days. Thereupon he appealed to this court. The other material facts presented by the record are stated in the opinion of the court.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of Wilkinson County. Hon. J. B. Chrisman, Judge. George Ritcher was indicted by the grand jury of Wilkinson County for selling liquor to a minor. He was convicted and sentenced to pay a fine of one hundred dollars and to be imprisoned in the county jail for ten days. Thereupon he appealed to this court. The other material facts presented by the record are stated in the opinion of the court. The object of the statute, for the violation of which appellant was convicted, clearly is to prevent minors from being debauched by the use of liquor. It is to prevent them,…
1Opinion of the CourtCooper, C. J.
The appellant has been indicted and convicted of selling liquor to a minor. The fact of the sale was established by the party to whom the liquor was delivered, and the defendant then proposed to prove by the witness that he had been sent by his uncle to obtain the liquor; that the uncle furnished the money, and that the liquor was in fact delivered to him by the witness. Upon objection by the State this testimony was excluded, and on this action the first error is assigned. The proposition of the appellant is that if the purchaser acted not for himself but as agent for another the sale was to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Fahey v. StateMississippi Supreme Court · 1884
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