Cole v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 21 — INDICTMENT 1. It was the manifest purpose and intention of the framers of the Constitution, and the local option law, that the whole question of local option should be purely local, and that each division and subdivision should have the right to determine for itself whether or not liquor should be sold within its borders. It was plainly the intention to change the old policy. Secs. 61 and 147, Ky. Constitution; Tabor v. Landor, 94 Ky., 237; Ky.
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Case 21 — INDICTMENT 1. It was the manifest purpose and intention of the framers of the Constitution, and the local option law, that the whole question of local option should be purely local, and that each division and subdivision should have the right to determine for itself whether or not liquor should be sold within its borders. It was plainly the intention to change the old policy. Secs. 61 and 147, Ky. Constitution; Tabor v. Landor, 94 Ky., 237; Ky. Stat., secs. 2554-2560: McTigue v. Commonwealth, 99 Ky., 66; Commonwealth v. Hardin, County Court, 99 Ky., 188; Lafferty v. Huffman, 99 Ky.,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE HAZELRIGG
delivered the opinion op the court.
The appellant was indicted and fined for selling spirituous, vinous and malt liquors in violation of what is commonly called the local option law, under these circumstances:
Upon application by written petition, signed by the requisite number of legal voters in Scott county, and upon applica*153tion at the same time by like petition, signed by the requisite number of such voters in the city of Georgetown, in that county, the judge of the county court at its July term, 189G, directed an election to be held on August 14th, thereafter, in the county…
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