Wortham v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
From the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. James H. Neville, Judge. Wortham, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted for selling whisky unlawfully, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Wortham was iudicted for the sale of liquor under code 1892, § 1592, and not under §§ 1604 or 1605 for soliciting orders or acting as agent for either purchaser or seller.
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From the circuit court of Harrison county. Hon. James H. Neville, Judge. Wortham, appellant, was indicted, tried, and convicted for selling whisky unlawfully, and appealed to the supreme court. The facts are fully stated in the opinion of the court. Wortham was iudicted for the sale of liquor under code 1892, § 1592, and not under §§ 1604 or 1605 for soliciting orders or acting as agent for either purchaser or seller. The agreement acquits the appellant of interest in the transaction, and establishes the fact that the- liquor did not belong to him, but to the person ■ from whom he bought. it;…
1Opinion of the Court
Terral, J.,
delivered-the opinion of the court.
The appellant was indicted in the circuit court of Harrison county for the unlawful sale of whisky, and convicted. The facts were agreed to be that “Charles Thames met the defendant in McHenry, in Harrison county, and asked him if he could get him a pint of whisky, and defendant told him that he could, and thereupon took fifty cents and went off and bought a pint of whisky from another person, not authorized by law to sell same, -paying therefor the fifty cents given him by Thames, and that said liquor, so bought' and delivered to Thames, was not…
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