The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1916-02-25
STRONG CHARGE o.
LIQUOR TRAFFIC BY
JUICE v. !. TURNER
LAWS FoR5IDDING SALES OF
LIQUOR ARE DETAILED TO
GRAND JURY.
STRICT IF Re, ALNI URGED
Every Effort Should Be Made. To Die
cover Violators as Execution of the
Law Will be of Benefit to the
Community.

Judge Turner's charge to the grand
jury on the question of detecting vic
1ators of the liquor laws, was an ex
ceedingly strong and forceful one. The
court gave all the various laws upon
the subject in charge and urged the
Jurors to discover violators. The
charge follows:
Il will call your attention in gen.
eral way to some of the most impor.
tant laws controlling the liquor traffic.
Druggists may sell intoxicating H.
qnor upon a physicians prescription,
or for pharmaceutical, scientific and
sacramental purposes, under such pre-
scribed restrictions and in such limit
cd quantities as guarantee its use for
the purpose intended and none other
A violation of this law is misdemean-
or punishable by heavy fine and i'm.
prisonment.
1T is unlawful for any club, lodge.
or association to sell or give away any
liquor containing more than one half
OF one per cent. alcohol, and it is I'm.
lawful to maintain club house where
such liquors are kept, sold or given
away, or distributed among its mem
hers.
at is unlawful to manufacture for
the purpose of sale, intoxicating Ii
squor, except alcohol for chemical and
tuaedical purposes. 1t is unlawful to
sail intoxicating liquor, as beverage,
within four miles of school house.
10 is q misdemeanor to sell 1t without
a license, and 1t is also a misdemeanor
for the owner of property after no
tice, to permit another person without
q license to sell intoxicating liquor
ON his property. It is also unlawful
for a person to buy for another intox-
icating liquor from another person
within four miles of school house.
IL Is also unlawful to send person
under twenty-one years of age to q
place where intoxicating liquors are
sold to procure liquor for himself or
another, and 1t is unlawful for deal
er to sell, give or deliver liquor to a
.minor. It Is also unlawful for per-
snn to solicit orders for intoxicating
liquors, as beverage, at any place in
attis state where it is unlawful to sell
such liquor as beverage. To engage
I'm selling intoxicating liquors is a pub
7ic nuisance, and the public nuisance
laws provide ample means for sup
pressing it.
at is unlawful for any person or
corporation to ship or convey intoxi- |
cating liquor from one county to an
other in this state, or from one point
TO another in this state, or into this
state, except in accordance with GER
tain restrictions and regulations.
SIT is a misdemeanor to publicly
drink any intoxicating liquor while
upon any public vehicle, or car, for
messengers, or a common carrier, and
anyone violating this law forfeits his
rights as a passenger and 1t is the
duty of those in charge to eject such
person.
There are some other statutes reg
Mating this traffic, but they are mostly
old laws applicable to different sur
roundings from those of the present
day. The grand jury has inquisitoriai
power as to practically all of these
pffenses, and the procuring of a U. 8.
revenue license is prima facia evil
fence that the holder is engaged in
the wholesale or retail liquor busi-
meas. /
'T instruct you to make careful
to discover violators of
these laws. Their enforcement will
greatly aid in the maintenance Of
good order in every community. and
IN preventing the commission Of other
sffenses."