Hawkins v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
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
- Moore v. CommonwealthSupreme Court of Virginia · 1933
- State v. CunninghamSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1961