Crabb v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Criminal law. Liquor-selling. Statutes. Constitutional law. Before Judge Janes. Polk superior court. February term, 1891. Jesse Crabb, agent of the Southern Express Company at Cedartown, Polk county, was indicted for liquor-selling. He excepted to the overruling of his demurrer to the indictment, and of his motion for a' new trial.
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Criminal law. Liquor-selling. Statutes. Constitutional law. Before Judge Janes. Polk superior court. February term, 1891. Jesse Crabb, agent of the Southern Express Company at Cedartown, Polk county, was indicted for liquor-selling. He excepted to the overruling of his demurrer to the indictment, and of his motion for a' new trial. The indictment charged that on Febi’uary 1, 1891, he “did unlawfully sell-and barter for a valuable consideration alcoholic, spirituous, malt and intoxicating liquors and intoxicating bitters and other drinks which, if drunk to excess, will produce intoxication,”…
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
1. There is not the slightest intimation in the title of the act of September 19, 1881, “ to regulate the sale of *587spirituous or intoxicating liquors of any kind in the county of Polk,” etc., that it intends to absolutely prohibit the sale of such liquors in that county, and yet the act declares that in case the election which is to he held under its provisions shall result in favor of a “restriction” of the sale of such liquors, then it shall be a misdemeanor to sell liquors at all in that county. In other words, the sale of liquors will be entirely prohibited. So much of the…
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