Loid v. State

The special presentment in this case charged that the accused, on a day named, in the county of Laurens, “ did for a valuable consideration sell alcoholic, spirituous and intoxicating liquors, to wit, whisky, brandy, rum, gin, ale, lager-beer, and' wine, and other drinks which if drunk to excess will produce intoxication, to said jurors unknown.” This presentment was evidently based upon that provision in the general local option law embraced in section 1548 of the Political Code, *725which, declares: “If a majority of the votes cast at any election, held as by this chapter provided, shall be…