Case ID: dc_1/html/0044-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

United States v. Paxton.
    A servant selling spirituous liquors for his master without license is not liable to the penalty.
    Indictment for retailing spirituous liquors without license.
   The Court

directed the jury that if they should be of opinion that the defendant sold the liquor as clerk, agent, servant, or barkeeper of Brown, then he was not guilty. It was the selling of Brown within the meaning of the act. See also post, United States v. Shuck, Alexandria, January term, 1802, (p. 56,) and United Stales v. Voss.