Cochran v. Commonwealth

The assignments of error raise the following questions which will be considered and disposed of in their order as stated below:

1. Is the act of Assembly, 1916, p. 215 (under which the indictment in the instant case was found), unconstitutional in so far as it prohibits the acceptance and reeéipt of ardent spirits, in that it violates section 52 of the Constitution of Virginia with respect to its title not being broad enough to admit of such enactment?

The title to the act, so far as pertinent to the above question, is as follows: “An act to define ardent spirits and to prohibit the * * * use,…