State v. . Lassiter

It is the position of the defendant that as the Yolstead Act, 41 U. S. Statutes at Large, 305, does not prohibit the purchase of liquor and the Turlington Act, ch. 1, Public Laws 1923, was adopted “to make tbe State law conform to tbe National law in relation to intoxicating liquor” under tbe “concurrent power” clause of tbe Eighteenth Amendment, tbe State was, therefore, at tbe time of tbe enactment of tbe local statute, limited in its power to legislate more stringently on tbe subject than tbe Congress bad done.

A similar argument was advanced in tbe case of U. S. v. Lanza, 260 E. S., 377,…