Dantzler v. State
Mississippi Supreme Court
Dantzler v. State, 104 Miss. 233 (Miss. 1913)
61 So. 305
Smith
Dantzler v. State
Opinion of the Court
delivered the opinion of the court.
The court below, in refusing to grant the second instruction requested by appellant, committed fatal error, as will appear from an examination of Page v. State, 59 South. 884, Johnson v. State, 63 Miss. 228, and Pearson v. State, 66 Miss. 510, 6 South. 243, 4 L. R. A. 835.
Reversed and remanded.
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- Clem Dantzler v. State
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- Intoxicating Liquors. Sales. What constitutes. A defendant was not guilty of the sale of intoxicating liquors, where a number of persons chipped in and made up the money to buy a keg of beer and delivered the money to defendant with the understanding that he was to order the beer for them to drink, and defendant ordered the beer and paid for it with the money which had been made up in this manner, the beer being shipped from Louisiana to a point in Mississippi and the only money which was paid to defendant at the time of the opening and drinking of the beer was for ice and express charges on the beer, and defendant reeeived no other money.