Bennett v. State

Citations

• 87 Miss. 803

Syllabus

<p>1. Intoxicants. Sales. Subterfuges.</p> <p>Tricks and subterfuges to evade the operation of the law prohibiting the sale of intoxicants will not be countenanced by the courts.</p> <p>2. Same. Concrete case.</p> <p>Proof that two persons asked accused for some whisky; that he wrote his name on a blank piece of paper and gave it to them, and that they carried it away and delivered it, with a sum of money, to the agent of a common carrier, who placed them in possession of some whisky, not a word having passed between them and the ' agent, will support a conviction of the accused for the sale of the whisky, under the statute prohibiting the sale of intoxicants.</p>