Case ID: blackf_5/html/0151-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Blackford, J. \n      Per Curiam.\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Godfrey v. The State.
    Wednesday, May 29.
    A grocer having a license to retail spirituous liquors sold his grocery — agreeing that the buyer should have the benefit' of the license. -Held, that the license was not assignable, and that the buyer had no authority under it to retail spirituous liquors.
    ERROR to the Randolph Circuit Court.
   Blackford, J.

Indictment. The charge is, that the defendant, at, &c., on the first of January, 1837, not having a license or permit to vend spirituous liquors by retail, — sold a half pint of whiskey to Jesse Cartwright for the sum of six cents, and which was not sold to the sick, &c.' Plea, not guilty. The evidence adduced on the trial was as follows: — ■ A license to keep a grocery for one year, at, &c., was obtained by one Hart on the fifth of September, 1836, who gave bond, &c.' About the 25th of December, 1836, Hart sold his interest in the grocery to the defendant, agreeing that the defendant might sell under the said license, and that he, Hart, would be responsible on his said bond for the good order of the house. The defendant sold the whiskey at the time and place mentioned in the indictment. The cause was submitted to the Circuit Court, and a judgment rendered against the defendant.

J. Perry, for the plaintiff.

W. Quarles, for the state.

There is no error in this judgment. The license to Hart was not assignable; and the defendant had no authority, under the circumstances, to sell the whiskey charged in the indictment.

Per Curiam.

The judgment is affirmed with costs.