Legal Opinion
State v. Clifton
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided January 25, 1940No. [No. 20, January Term, 1940.]PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDelaplaine, J.
Emerson Clifton, the appellee, was indicted on April 25th, 1939, and arrested, on the charge of selling an alcoholic berverage in Dorchester County without a license in violation of the State Alcoholic Beverages Act. Acts of 1933, Extra Sess., ch. 2; Code (Supp. 1935), art. 2B, sec. 2.
The statute has been amended by an Act of the Legislature which took effect on June 1st. Acts of 1939, ch. 775. The Act repealed article 2B, section 2, and enacted another section in its place; but it. did not change the penalty for violations thereof: a fine of not more than §1000 or imprisonment for not more…
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