Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from Elmore Circuit Court. Heard before Hon. W. W. Pearson. George Williams was convicted of violating the prohibition law and appealed to the Court of Appeals, ivho certified the constitutional question involved to the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the CourtSayre, J.
The statute (Acts Sp. Sess. 1909, pp. 86, 87) dealing with the subject of intoxicating liquors makes it “unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation, or assocation, whether a common carrier or not * * * to convey or transport over or along any public street or highway any of such prohibited liquors for another,” and denounces any violation as a misdemeanor.
The Court of Appeals inquires whether the quoted provision of the statute offends against section 35 of the Constitution of Alabama or the fourteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
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