Plummer v. State

It seems to be difficult for the courts to teach Plummer that the way of the transgressor is hard. This is the third time he has been convicted and has appealed to this court; and each time it has been “something concerning a little liquor.” His untoward skepticism as to the efficiency of the prohibition law has been costly to him; for each of the previous convictions against him has been sustained; and so now is the one- at bar.

The middleman in an illegal sale of intoxicating liquor, to be free from criminal responsibility, must act solely as agent for the buyer. If he delivers the liquor…