Ex Parte McClain

Citations

• 61 Cal. 436
• 1882 Cal. LEXIS 640

Syllabus

<p>Constitutionality oe a Law Forbidding Sale of Liquor in Vicinity of State Prison, Insane Asylum, or University.—Under the late Constitution it was competent for the Legislature to prohibit the sale of vinous or alcoholic liquors within the limits specified in Section 172, Penal Code, if, in its opinion, the well-being of the youth being educated at the University, or the discipline and reformatioñ of convicts, or the health of the unfortunate insane, would be thereby promoted or preserved.</p>