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179 Ala. 50

Williams v. State

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided January 29, 1913

Supreme Court of Alabama · decided 1913-01-29

Heard before Hon. W. W. Pearson. George Williams was convicted of violating the prohibition law and appealed to the Court of Appeals, ivho certified the constitutional question involved to the Supreme Court.

Relies on Fitzpatrick v. State

Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know

Constitutionality of the act upheld · Decided 1913-01-29

How this case has been cited

Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently June 1933

4 state decisions

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MoOLELLAN, J.

¶1(concurring.) — Being of the opinion that the views entertained and expressed by the dissenting justices (of whom, with Justices Simpson and Denson, I was one) in Eidge v. City of Bessemer, 164 Ala., pp. 607-622, 51 South. 246, 26 L. R. A. (N. S.) 394, were and are correct and sound, I desire to limit my concurrence in the response to the questions certified, in this instance, by the Conrt of Appeals to *54their concrete answers, excluding my agreement to the opinion (ante) in the particular in which the majority view in the Eidge Case is reaffirmed. Additionally, I am unable to see how, on principle, the pertinent doctrine of Fitzpatrick v. State, 169 Ala. 1, 53 South. 1021 (subsequently delivered), can be reconciled with the majority view in Eidge’s Case, supra.

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