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127 Ga. 308

Harley v. State

Supreme Court of Georgia

Decided January 16, 1907

Supreme Court of Georgia · decided 1907-01-16

<p>Accusation of selling liquor to minor. Before Judge Thomas. City court of Baxley. September 22, 1906.</p>

Relies on Siegel v. People · O'Connell v. O'Leary · Commonwealth v. Lattinville

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Decided 1907-01-16

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Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently July 1985

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Beck, J.

¶1When 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.

¶2Judgment reversed.

All the Justices concur, except Fish, O. J., absent.
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