Simpson v. Mayor of Eastman

1. On a trial in a municipal court for the violation of a city ordinance prohibiting the keeping of intoxicating liquors for sale, there was evidence that a certain person gave the defendant 75 cents, went off, and a few minutes later received from him a pint of whisky. This authorized the inference that he sold the whisky and was keeping whisky for sale. Langston v. City of Hazlehurst, 9 Ga. App. 449 (3) (71 S. E. 592); Gaskins v. State, 127 Ga. 51 (55 S. E. 1045). The statement of the accused that he acted merely as agent for the purchaser, and obtained the whisky for him from another…