Strauss v. Mayor of Waycross

Lumpkin, Justice.

Tbe plaintiff in error was tried and convicted by tbe Mayor and Council of Waycross upon tbe charge of “selling, taking or receiving orders for tbe sale of, intoxicating drinks, or spirituous or malt liquors, or fermented or mixed *476intoxicating drinks, contrary to ordinance,” on January 27 th, 1894.

Prior to the passage of the act of December 18, 1893 (Acts of 1893, p. 115), soliciting orders for the sale of spirituous, malt, or other intoxicating liquors, in any “prohibition” county in this State was not indictable under any criminal statute of Georgia, but was, for the first…