Tucker v. City of Moultrie

1. A municipal corporation has authority, under the general-welfare clause in its charter, to pass an ordinance prohibiting the keeping of intoxicating liquors for the purpose of unlawful sale. Cunningham v. Griffin, 107 Ga. 690 (2); Reese v. Newnan, 120 Ga. 198.

2. A conviction under such an ordinance on one day is no bar to a conviction for keeping the same liquors for that purpose on a.subsequent day.

3. One living in a “ dry town,” who has at his home “ cased whisky ” and “37 pints of liquor in his trunk,” and receives by railroad whisky by the case hilled “Mineral Water,” some of whose…