El delito de venta ilícita de bebidas alcohólicas en la legislación penal de Puebla, México

The present work undertakes a dogmatic study of the criminal offences in Articles 199 sexies, 199 septies, and 199 octies of the Penal Code of the Free and Sovereign State of Puebla, Mexico. These provisions aim to define criminal conduct related to selling, distributing and supplying alcoholic beverages without the corresponding permits and outside the legally established hours. Also, the law sanctions public officials who authorize permits that violate the administrative regulations on the matter. Likewise, it punishes the concealment or favoring of such conduct, the sale of said ethyl substances to minors, and the sale of adulterated beverages. Such a criminal list warrants an analysis based on the study of the protected legal interest and its typical behavioral modalities, analyzing both its strengths and weaknesses. This is done alongside the study of the legislative design of the varying degrees of punishment for each offense.