People v. Cook
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Mike Cook, from a judgment of the County Court of Cattaraugus county, rendered on the 18th day of October, 1920, convicting him of violating the Liquor Tax Law of the State of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
Hubbs, J.:
Upon the trial of the defendant his counsel, by objections and exceptions to the rulings made by the court, raised the question that the defendant could not be legally convicted of the crime of violating the Liquor Tax Law because that law had been superseded and nullified by the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States and the enactment of the National Prohibition Act (41 U. S. Stat. at Large, 305,# chap. 83), being the act of October 28, 1919, known as the Volstead Act.
The first two sections of the Eighteenth Amendment read as follows:
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