People v. Cooney

Ploscowe, M.

Is the owner or manager of a grocery store guilty of a violation of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law if he permits a boy under eighteen years of age in his employ to deliver a food order to a customer which contains some bottles of beer? That is the basic issue in this case. The defendant insists that subdivision 2-a of section 100 of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law was not intended to cover the activities of delivery boys employed by grocery stores. He is supported in this contention by counsel for the New York State Food Merchants’ Association, which speaks for 20,000…