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1 Miss. Dec. 529

Michon v. State

Mississippi Supreme Court

Decided March 10, 1884

Mississippi Supreme Court · decided 1884-03-10

Appellant, Frank M. Michon, was indicted for unlawfully selling spirituous liquors in a greater quantity than one pint without obtaining a license. He was tried and convicted at the October term, 1883, of the Circuit Court of Harrison county and sentenced to pay a fine and appealed to the Supreme Court. Before the cause was finally disposed of in the Supreme Court the Legislature repealed the law under which he was convicted.

Prosecution abated, · Decided 1884-03-10

¶1Opinion.

Cooper, J.,

¶2delivered the opinion of the court:

¶3Notwithstanding the amendments to sections 1097, 1098, 1103,. 1108, and 1109 of the Code of 1880' by the Act of 1882, by which the word “pint” wherever it occurred in said sections was changed to “ gallon,” it yet remained a criminal offense by sec*532tion 1112 of the Code to sell vinous and spirituous liquors in quantities of one pint or more without first paying the privilege tax for so doing. This section remained unamended and the offense there declared remained an offense notwithstanding the fact that by the amendments to the other sections no privilege could be obtained so to sell. The appellant was, therefore, rightly convicted.

¶4But on the 4th day of the present month (since this case has been submitted for decision) an act of the Legislature has been passed and approved whereby the word “pint” in section 1112 has been stricken out and the word “gallon” inserted in lieu thereof.

¶5This is a repeal of the law creating the offense for which the appellant has been convicted, and the law being repealed the prosecution must abate.

¶6Ordered accordingly.

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