Cotton v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Yell Circuit Court, Dardanelle District. Jeremiah G. Waeeace, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, W. P. Cotton, was indicted for selling whiskey within five miles of the public school building of the town of Dardanelle.
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Appeal from Yell Circuit Court, Dardanelle District. Jeremiah G. Waeeace, Judge. STATEMENT BY THE COURT. The appellant, W. P. Cotton, was indicted for selling whiskey within five miles of the public school building of the town of Dardanelle. The case was submitted to the court upon the following agreed statement of facts: “It is agreed that, on the first day of June, 1895, the defendant, W. P. Cotton, sold to Hugh McNutt for the sum of two dollars five gallons of whiskey at his distillery in the town of Dardanelle, Yell county, Arkansas; that at the time of said sale the said W. P. Cotton was…
1Opinion of the Court
Riddick, J.,
(after stating the facts). The general assembly of 1895 passed a special act to prevent the sale or giving away of intoxicating liquors within five miles of the Dardanelle school house in Dardanelle, Yell county, which act was approved April 9th, 1895. The contention of. appellant is that section 4851, Sand. & H. Dig., gives manufacturers of vinous, ardent, malt, or fermented liquors the right to sell liquors in original packages of not less than five gallons without license, and that this right of such manufacturers to sell was not affected by the special act above mentioned. We…
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