Barlow v. Mayor of Americus

In response to a question certified to that court in this case, the Supreme Court held: “A municipal ordinance which penalized ‘keeping for.sale intoxicating liquors within the limits of the City of Americus’ was rendered void by the provisions of the general law approved November 17, 1915 (Georgia Laws, 1915, Extraordinary Session, p. 77), entitled, ‘An act to make clearer and more certain the laws of Georgia heretofore enacted for prohibiting the manufacture of alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, and intoxicating liquors and beverages, traffic therein, and the keeping on hand thereof in public…