Anglin v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Neom; the circuit court of Amite county. HoN. Moyse H. WilhiNSON, Judge. Anglin, appellant, was indicted and tried for th'e unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors, was convicted, and sentenced to a fine and imprisonment, and appealed to the supreme court.
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Neom; the circuit court of Amite county. HoN. Moyse H. WilhiNSON, Judge. Anglin, appellant, was indicted and tried for th'e unlawful sale of intoxicating liquors, was convicted, and sentenced to a fine and imprisonment, and appealed to the supreme court. It was shown by the state that one Garter sought the appellant, for the purpose of purchasing whiskey, met him at his yard gate in Louisiana, a short distance from the Mississippi line, and there, in Louisiana, contracted with appellant for the purchase of several bottles of whiskey, to be afterwards set apart by appellant and delivered to…
1Opinion of the Court
Smith, J.,
delivered tbe opinion of tbe court.
Tbe evidence in tbis case shows without conflict that tbe offer •to purchase tbe whiskey, the acceptance thereof, and the payment of the price occurred in the state of Louisiana, near the Mississippi line, and that the whiskey was delivered across the line in the state of Mississippi. Appellant’s request for a per■emptory instruction, therefore, was properly refused. Jenkins v. State, 82 Miss. 500, 34 South. 217. And while the instruction given the state may not be a strictly accurate announcement, of the law, still, as applied to the facts of this…
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