Case ID: ohio-st_45/html/0663-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

The State v. Richard Winch.
    
      Constitutional Law — Sec. 26, Article 2 — Act of April 12, 1876, void.
    
    (Decided April 24, 1888.)
    Exceptions by the prosecuting attorney.to the ruling of the Court of Common Pleas of Medina County.
    
      J. W. Seymour, prosecuting attorney, and Boynton, Fíale & Horr, for the state.
    
      F. L. Hessenmueller, contra.
    
   By the Court.

An act passed April 12, 1876 (73 Ohio L. 321), to prevent gambling and the sale of intoxicating liquors on or within a distance of two miles of Chippewa Lake, in the county of Medina,” is in contravention of section 26, article 2, of the constitution of this state, which ordains that all laws of a general nature shall have a uniform operation throughout the state,” and is consequently void.

Exceptions overruled.