Bagley v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for selling liquor. Before Judge Littlejohn. Sumter .superior court. May term, 1897.
1Dissent
Little, J.,
'dissenting. I do not propose to submit any elaboi’ate ai'gument in giving the reasons which impel me to dissent from the conclusions, as well as the reasoning, which my brethren have adopted in this case. The reasoning of a majority of the court is based on the proposition that, the local option liquor law (embodied in section 1541 et seq. of the Political' Code) being in force, and it being a general law, our constitutional provision, which forbids the enactment of a special law in any case for which provision has been made by an existing general law, makes void an act of the…
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