Pine v. Commonwealth

The case involves the preliminary and fundamental question—

1. Is section 62 of the Constitution of Virginia restrictive in its effect so that the legislature was without power to enact the statute, Acts 1916, p. 215, except with respect to the provisions of such statute which concern merely the “manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors” — those portions of the statute prohibiting other acts than such manufacture and sale being, in such view of the statute, in conflict with said section 62 of the Constitution and void ?

This question being answered in the negative, the case involves the…