Case ID: ga_89/html/0748-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Tharpe v. The State.
    An indictment charging the accused with unlawfully selling alcoholic liquors, spirituous liquors, malt liquors and intoxicating hitlers, is supported by evidence that he sold to a woman two drinks of liquor from a bottle which he carried in a carpet-bag and that she drank the liquor and it made her drunk, this evidence being sufficient to show that the liquor was intoxicating, and therefore within the description of liquors covered by the indictment.
    August 1, 1892.
    Criminal law. -Liquor-selling. Before Judge Miller. Houston superior court. October term, 1891.
    Tharpe was convicted in the county court upon an indictment charging him with selling spirituous,’ alcoholic, and malt liquors and intoxicating bitters in Houston county on August 2,1890. He took the cause by certiorari to the superior court, alleging that the conviction was erroneous upon the mere proof that he sold, liquor without more. The evidence was, that in August, 1890, in Houston county, in an outhouse there was a frolic, and Betsy Bell bought three drinks of liquor from Sarah Matthews, and afterwards bought two drinks from defendant, paying him ten cents for the same. Defendant had the liquor in a bottle in a grip-sack. Defendant and Betsey were in a lighted room, and defendant proposed to sell her some liquor, and she followed him into the adjoining room and bought two drinks of liquor from him. The liquor made her drunk. Her husband went to defendant that night and told him not to sell his wife any more liquor, and defendant said he had not sold her any and would not sell her any more. In his statement the defendant said that he did not sell any liquor at the time mentioned, and never sold any in Houston county; and thát he never had any liquor there that night.
    C. C: Duncan, by brief, for plaintiff in error.
    W. II. Felton, Jr. solicitor-general, contra.
    
   Judgment affirmed.