Earp v. State

(Dissenting). — Our prohibition amendment of the state Constitution (see Laws 1915, p. 1), article 23, section 1, very closely resembles — if it was not actually a copy of — section 2139, Revised Statutes of the United States (U. S. Comp. Stats., § 4136a,), having immaterial changes so as to apply to the state instead of applying to the Indian country.

In Brown v. State, 17 Ariz. 314, 152 Pac. 578, we said this amendment was borrowed, as far as practicable, from Revised Statutes of the United States, section 2139, and it may reasonably be given the construction applied by the courts of the…