State v. Cochran
Oregon Supreme Court
From Multnomah: ROBERT G. MORROW, Judge. The defendant, Sam Cochran, was tried and convicted for the violation of the local option law in the City of St. Johns and from the judgment following such conviction, defendant appeals.
1DissentJustice Eakin
delivered the following dissenting opinion:
There is no similarity between the Medford charter and that of St. Johns, either in its language or effect. The language of the Medford charter that takes it out of the local option law is that the city council shall have power and authority to “license, tax, regulate, or prohibit, barrooms, drinking shops * * irrespective of any general law in the State on the subject enacted by the legislature or by the people at large,’ clearly showing a purpose to except it from the provisions of the local option law; while the language of the St. Johns charter…
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