State v. Adamson

Indictment against Adamson for giving away intoxicating liquor to a minor. Indictment quashed on motion.

The ground upon which the indictment was quashed, appears to have been that the section of the liquor law of 1859, prohibiting the giving away of intoxicating liquor to a minor, was not properly connected with the subject embraced by the title of the law.

The title of the act is as follows:

*297“ An act to regulate and license the sale of spirituous, &c., liquors, to prevent the adulteration thereof, to repeal former laws, &c., and to prescribe penalties,” &c,

The section referred to is this:

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