Hingle v. State

These cases involve the question of the constitutionality of the fourteenth section of what is known as the liquor law of 1859. That section attempts to confer jurisdiction of cases prosecuted for the violation of the act, upon both the common pleas and circuit courts.

The appellant makes two objections to the constitutionality of the section in question, and both are pressed with much zeal, and supported by an argument of great plausibility. "We will consider these objections in the order in which they are made.

1. That the section is unconstitutional because the matter embraced in it is not…