Legal Opinion

Hawkins v. Commonwealth

Supreme Court of Virginia

Decided January 17, 1924PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Sims, J.,

after making the foregoing statement, delivered the following opinion of the court:

The questions raised by the assignments of error will 'be disposed of in their order as stated below.

1. Do sections 21 Y% of the prohibition act of 1918 (Acts 1918, page 594, et seq.) — remaining unchanged in .Acts 1922, page 573 — and section 5 of the same act of 1918 — which also remained unchanged in Acts 1922— when read together make an intentional violation of the *755provision of the act, of which the accused is charged, an essential ingredient of the offense, where the offense charged is that…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. Moore v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1933
  2. State v. CunninghamSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1961

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