Bond v. State

Citations

• 21 Miss. 265

Syllabus

<p>Where a prisoner is indicted for selling liquor to slaves without the permission of the owner, master, or overseer, it will not legalize the sale or excuse the prisoner that the master, with the view of detecting the prisoner in an illegal sale, gave his negro, without the prisoner’s knowledge, permission to sell certain articles to the prisoner, for which the negro, in exchange, received liquor of the prisoner; the master being present, also without the prisoner’s knowledge, during the transaction.</p>