Hedderich v. State

The indictment upon which rests the judgment of conviction from which this appeal is prosecuted charges the appellant with the offence of selling a gill of intoxicating liquor to be drank as a beverage, between the hours of eleven o’clock p. M., of the 21st day of January, 1885, and five o’clock A. m., of the succeeding morning.

The validity of the statute prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquor between the hours of eleven o’clock p. m. and five o’clock A. M. is assailed upon the ground that the Legislature does not possess the power to enact such a law; but *566no provision of the…