Case ID: ga_121/html/0590-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Lamar, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Graham v. The State.
    Submitted January 16, —
    Decided January 26, 1905.
    Indictment for selling liquor to minor. • Before Judge Proffitt. City court of Elberton. November 28, 1904.
    
      T. L. Adams, by S'. L. Olive, for plaintiff in error.
    
      T. J. Brown, solicitor, contra.
   Lamar, J.

1. Whether the liquor sold was intoxicating or not was a matter about which the evidence was in conflict, but that of the State was sufficient to warrant a conviction.

2. In a prosecution for the sale of liquor to a minor, under the Penal Code, §444,. the burden is on the defendant to show written authority from the parent or guardian. Reich v. State, 63 Ga. 620 ; Amos v. State, 34 Ga. 531; Hines v. State, 93 Ga. 187 (2).

Judgment affirmed.

All the Justices concur.