Hall v. State

SIMPSON, Judge.

This appeal proceeded from a conviction of violating the State prohibition law in Geneva, a dry, County.

Immediately prior to an election held November 9, 1937, under the provisions of the Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Act, Code 1940, Tit. 29, § 1 et seq., Geneva was a wet county, as that term is used in the Act. However, in said election a majority of the qualified electors of the county voted against the legal sale and distribution of alcoholic beverages in said .county, whereby it became dry, thus bringing into full force and effect all of the then existing prohibition…