In re Dunkerton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Marshall, J.:

Josie Dunkerton presents an application for a writ of habeas corpus. Notice of the hearing of the application has been given, and the matter is submitted on its merits. The petitioner is confined on the state industrial farm for women, under conviction for violating section 1 of chapter 215, Laws of 1917, commonly known as the “bone-dry” law. She argues that the act under which she is confined (Laws 1917, eh. 298) is unconstitutional, for the reason that it contravenes section 1 of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution of the United…