Gandy v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Prom the Circuit Court of Butler. Tried before the Hon. John P. Hubbard. cited Tusk. Bridge Go. v. Olmstead, 41 Ala. 9; Rogers v. Torbut, 58 Ala. 533; Dane v. McArthur, 57 Ala. 448; 1 Bish. Crim. Law, § 287; Stein v. State, 37 Ala. 123; Allen v. State, 52 Ala. 391. cited Ex parte Pollard, 40 Ala. 77; Stein v. Deeper, 78 Ala. 517; BaUeniine v. Wickersham, 75 Ala. 533; Gandy v. State, 82 Ala. 61.
1Opinion of the CourtSomerville, J.
The indictment, in due form, charges the defendant with having voted illegally at a special election held in Butler county, under the authority of an act approved November 27, 1886, providing for the expression of the popular voice in that county on the subject of adopting or rejecting a pirohibitory liquor law. The defendant assails the constitutionality of this act, as violative of section 2 of Article IY of the Constitution of Alabama, which provides, that “each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title”; and that “no law shall be revived, amended, or…
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