Barry v. State

{dissenting). I cannot concur in the result reached in these several cases because I am of the opinion that ch. 165, Stats. — the Prohibition Act and its enforcement, — contains within itself complete, controlling, and exclusive provisions for the maximum penalties that may be visited upon any one who is convicted of any of the offenses therein described. As a penal act it should be construed strictly. Such is the well established rule, and so recognized here and generally. 2 Lewis’ Sutherland, Stat. Constr. (2d ed.) §§ 337, 520; Wilson v. State, 1 Wis. 184, holding that a construction is not…