Cook v. State

Mitchell, J.:

The plaintiff' in error was tried in the Circuit Court, Spring term, 1889, upon an indictment charging him with “unlawfully selling, and causing to be sold, certain intoxicating liquor, to-wit: whiskey. The said county of Franklin having before that time, to-wit on the 23d day of August, A. D. 1887, held an election in said county, in the manner prescribed by law, to decide whether the sale of intoxicating liquors, wine or beer, should be prohibited in said county, and a majority of the votes legally cast at said election having been given in favor of prohibiting the sale of such…