Case Name: Harley v. The State
Court: Supreme Court of Georgia
Jurisdiction: Georgia
Decision Date: 1907-01-16
Citations: 127 Ga. 308
Docket Number: 
Parties: Harley v. The State.
Judges: All the Justices concur, except Fish, O. J., absent.
Reporter: Georgia Reports
Volume: 127
Pages: 308–308

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.