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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 497
    BROWN v. STATE.
    Ohio Appeals, 2nd Dist., Franklin Co.
    No. 1245.
    Decided March 25, 1925
    661. INTOXICATING LIQUOR—Inteat af Congress and State legislature, to prohibit sala of any compound or preparation éóntainirigál-cohol, Which ia.rbapable Of being .'iiséd’-'Ü§!ía beverage. ■ \ ,:,
    ;¡'465:¡ ERROR—--The1 30 day limit: f*r proceedings in,áoe* not apply to -keeping placabf selling intéxicátirig liquors. T' 7 ’ - ;3'-’i
   BY THE COURT.

David Brown was charged before a magistrate with the offense of being the unlawful keeper of a place where intoxicating liqours were sold in violation of 13195 GC.' ■ He was . found guilty - and fined. Error was prosecuted :. in. .the Franklin Common Pleas where the judg- : ;jnent. of the magistrate was affirmed. The: ’case ;was taken on error to the Court of Appeals. '. ' -,

Attorneys—Wilbur E. King for Brown; C. C. Crabbe and Don V. Parker for State; all of Columbus.

.Brown declared that he was a druggist, and ■ .that-certain preparations • or compounds were 'sold which -..contained ale,ohol. The State con-; tended that the .analysis of the' preparation showed-it'to contain-23.7% alcohol by volume. ■Brown declared that the preparation was sold as a: medicine, and not a beverage. The Court of Appeals held: . > -

1. Medicinal prpearations, unfit for beverage purposes may be manufactured, etc.

2. State statutes and National Prohibition Act may be construed together to show that a violation was committed.

3. Intent of Congress and State Legislature was clearly to prohibit sale of any compound capable of being used as a beverage, and which contains- more alcohol than the minimum allowed.

4. Evidence in this case is sufficient to show that the compound actually sold by Brown was capable of being used as a beverage, and the sale thereof was in violation of 6212-15 ■ GC.

5. Proceeding in error, under 1915-20 GC., providing for filing within 30 days, does not apply to prosecutions under 13195 GC. for keeping place where intoxicating liquors are sold, and the present case brought after 30 ■ days was therefore begun in time.

Judgment affirmed. '