Bienert v. State

Georgia as a whole is a dry State and the .general prohibition law as contained in Code §§ 58-101, 58-102, •et seq., generally known as the “bone dry” law, is in force and ■effect in every county of the State unless the prohibited liquors have been legalized by statute or statute and election held in ■conformity with the statute in the individual counties. Prior to the effective date of the act of 1937-38 (Ga. Laws, 1937-38 Ex. Sess., p. 103) the sale of distilled spirits and whisky was a ■violation of the prohibition law. Bibb County, the county in which the crime was alleged to have been…