Case ID: ga_127/html/0308-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Beck, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Harley v. The State.
    Argued December 18, 1906.
    ’Decided January 16, 1907.
    Accusation of selling liquor to minor. Before Judge Thomas. City court of Baxley. September 22, 1906.
    
      Parker & Moore and W. W. Bennett, for plaintiff in error.
    
      V. E. Padgett, solicitor, contra.
   Beck, J.

When one delivered to a minor intoxicating liquor, and the undisputed evidence shows that the minor was in good faith acting as the agent of a named person who furnished the money therefor, which fact, was at the time disclosed to the seller, and the minor actually carried and delivered the liquor to such third person, without consuming or parting with any of it on the way, the sale was to the principal, and the seller was not guilty of selling or furnishing liquor to the minor. Dixon v. State, 89 Ga. 785; Barlow v. State, ante, 58; Siegel v. People, 106 Ill. 89; Commonwealth v. Lattinville, 120 Mass. 385; O’Connell v. O’Leary, 145 Mass. 311.

Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur, except Fish, O. J., absent.