Dahmer v. State

Citations

• 56 Miss. 787

Syllabus

<p>1. Obimutai. Law. Retailing, diving away liquors. Acts 187S, p. 97.</p> <p>An indictment under the act of March 17, 1873, for selling liquor to a person in the habit of getting intoxicated, will be sustained, under sect. 7 thereof, by-proof of a gift of the liquor, if the evidence be otherwise sufficient to convict.</p> <p>2. Same. Evidence. Joint indictment. License to one.</p> <p>A license to retail liquors, issued to one indicted with several others, is inadmissible, under the legislative act above referred to, to rebut proof that all of the defendants were jointly engaged in the business of retailing.'</p>