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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 240
    SZO v. STATE
    Ohio Court of Appeals, Montgomery County
    No. 483.
    Jan. 19, 1923
    INTOXICATING LIQUORS — (1) Owner or keeper of place where whiskey is illegally sold is chargeable with the act of his employee — (2) Sale of whiskey and putting of money in cashdráwer by employe, raises presumption of regularity.
    Error to Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County
    Attorneys — W. S. Rhotelhamel, for Szo; H. E. Mau, Pros. L. L. Cecil J. A. White, E. M. Earhart and E. B. Jarvis, for State.
   Epitomized Opinion

BY THE COURT:

Andy Szo was convicted in municipal court of keeping a place where intoxicating liquors were illegally sold, and the conviction was affirmed in Common Pleas Court. The case was submitted on the transcript of evidence taken in the case of State v. Alice Szo, where it appeared that the illegal sale was made in the absence of Andy Szo, but that the bartender placed the money received in the cash register. Held by the Court of Appeals in affirming conviction:

1. The owner and keeper of a place where intoxicating liquors are sold is chargeable with the act of his employe, the bartender.

2. The illegal sale of whiskey by an employe and the placing of the money received in the cash register raises a sufficient presumption of regularity to indicate general authority of the bartender, and to call upon the employer for testimony.