Opinion

Graham v. State

  • 45 Ala. App. 79
  • 224 So. 2d 905
  • 1969 Ala. App. LEXIS 326
Court
Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama
Filed
May 20, 1969
Status
Published
Author
Cates
On the bench
Cates
Cited by
4 cases
Authority
More cited than 69.1%

The opinion

CATES, Judge.

Appellant legally bought whiskey in the wet county of Madison. He took it to his home in the dry county of Colbert. He was arrested and convicted under Code 1940, T. 29, Sec. 98. Prior decisions compel that we affirm his conviction.

Local option is permissible State action under the Fourteenth Amendment. Rippey v. Texas, 193 U.S. 504 , 24 S.Ct. 516 , 48 L.Ed. 767 ; Lloyd v. Dollison, 194 U.S. 445 , 24 S.Ct. 703 , 48 L.Ed. 1062 ; and Eberle v. Michigan, 232 U.S. 700 , 34 S.Ct. 464 , 58 L.Ed. 803 .

We do not consider that Code 1940, T. 13, Sec. 95, requires us to be bound by the single, separate, specially concurring opinion of Mr. Justice Brown in Holt v. State, 238 Ala. 2 , 193 So. 89 . The majority opinion therein does require that we affirm the judgment below. See also Williams v. State, 28 Ala.App. 73 , 179 So. 915 (11); and Casmus v. Lee, 236 Ala. 396 , 183 So. 185 , 118 A.L.R. 822 .

The judgment of the Law and Equity Court is hereby Affirmed.

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