Allen v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Corporation Court of the city of Newport News.
1Opinion of the Court
Sims, J.,
after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:. The questions sought to be raised by the second and third assignments of error are not presented by the record in this case. The law which the record discloses as enforced by the judgment under review was the State law, enacted, in the exercise of the police power of the State, prior to the going into effect of the eighteenth amendment to the Federal Constitution and prior to the enactment by the Congress of the Volstead act (41 Stat. 305).: [1] The question presented for our decision by the…
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