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69 Ky. 400

Ulrich v. Commonwealth

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided January 12, 1869

Court of Appeals of Kentucky · decided 1869-01-12

<p>APPEAL PROM KENTON CIRCUIT COURT.</p> <p>Selling liquor to minors. — It is as in.cum.bent on the vendor of liquor to know that his customer labors under no disability as it is for him to know the law.</p>

Decided 1869-01-12

JUDGE PETERS

¶1delivered the opinion op the court.

¶2Appellant’s motto was commendable, and if he had conformed his practice to his precept he would have shunned the criticism of the grand jury, and his young friend would doubtless have profited by his forbearance.

¶3The law commands him not to sell liquor to minors unless by the 'written consent or request of the father of such minors, if living, or of their mother or guardian, if the father be dead.

¶4It is as incumbent on the vendor of liquor to know that his customer labors under no disability as it is for him to know the law, and his ignorance of neither will excuse him.

¶5*401As the evidence authorized the verdict, and no error was committed by the giving or refusing instructions, the judgment must he affirmed.

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