Jackson v. South Carolina Tax Commission

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Baker.

The sole question before the Court in this case is:

Is it a violation of Section 18 of Act 232 of the Acts of 1935, legalizing the sale of alcoholic liquors in South Carolina, to make a sale of liquor that is otherwise lawful, where the seller knows that the purchaser is known in the community as a bootlegger or illicit liquor dealer?

Section 18 provides that “the manufacture, sale, barter, or exchange, receipt or acceptance for unlawful use, delivery, storing and keeping in possession within this State of any alcoholic liquor as herein…