State v. Paul

The defendant was convicted and fined in the Clarke county superior court for selling intoxicating liquor in the city of Vancouver while that city, as claimed by the prosecution, was a unit in which such sale was prohibited by virtue of an election held therein under the local option law. Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6292 et seq. (P. C. 267 § 29). He has appealed to this court and seeks reversal of the judgment rendered against him upon the sole ground that the local option law was not, at the time the sale was made by him upon which his prosecution rests, in force in the city of Vancouver, because it…