State v. Jones

Citations

• 66 Wash. 229
• 119 P. 384

Syllabus

<p>Intoxicating Liquors — Local Option ■ — • Offenses — Gifts in Street — Statutes'—Construction. The giving away of liquor on the streets of a town within a dry unit is a violation of the local option law of 1909, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6300, providing that it shall be unlawful to sell or give away any intoxicating liquor within the limits of the unit, provided the words “give away” shall not prohibit the giving of liquor to guests in a private house; notwithstanding the further provision of Id., § 6303, aimed at gifts by dealers for the obvious purpose of evading the penalties against sales.</p> <p>Statutes — Title and Subject of Acts — Intoxicating Liquors— Local Option. The local option law of 1909, Rem. & Bal. Code, § 6292, entitled an act to provide for the submission of the question whether the “sale” of intoxicating liquors shall he licensed or prohibited, and providing for the enforcement of the result of elections and defining offenses thereunder, relates to but one subject sufficiently expressed in its title; and penalties for the “giving away” of liquor within a dry unit, except to guests in private houses, are germane to the subject; the word “sale” in the title not being determinative of the acts to be punished.</p>