State ex rel. Springer v. Bliss

HURST, C.J. (dissenting).

The majority opinion is contrary to the views entertained by all the Justices who first sat upon this court and. the Criminal Court of Appeals, as shown by opinions rendered in 1909 and 1910, when the question of the intention and understanding of those responsible for framing and adopting our Constitution and the prohibition ordinance was fresh in the minds of the judges and the people.

In Rochester Brewing Co. v. State (1910) 26 Okla. 309, 109 P. 298, in an opinion written by Justice Williams, and concurred in by Justices Dunn, Hayes, Kane, and Turner, this court, in…