Ricketts v. State
Ricketts v. State
Opinion of the Court
The affidavit charging that the defendant received or had in his possession for sale and sold prohibited beverages, viz. certain liquid drinks as beverages made in imitation of and intended as a substitute for beer, ale, or other alcoholic, spirituous, vinous, or malt liquors in violation of law, etc.
First: That the National Prohibition Law (41 Stat. 305) had the effect of annulling the state law wherever' the state law did not coincide with the federal statute. This proposition is decided adversely to appellant’s contention in State of Rhode Island v. Palmer, 253 U. S. 350, 40 Sup. Ct. 486, 64 L. Ed. 946; Com. v. Nickerson, 236 Mass. 281, 128 N. E. 273, 10 A. L. R. 1568.
The several rulings of the court on the pleadings were without error.
We find no error in the record, and the judgment is affirmed.
Affirmed.
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