PROHIBITION VIOLATORS
TD BE RELEASED SUPREME COURT'S DECISION Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. WASHINGTON, February 5, (Received February 6, at 12.10 p.m.) Violators of the Prohibition law, numbering 13,00(J throughout the States, who were indicted before the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment, to-day won their freedom, when the Supreme Court ruled that they could no longer be prosecuted. A test case brought by the Government resulted in the court expressing the opinion that despite the old common law requiring specific withdrawal of the penalties and repeal of the Act the courts no longer had the power to punish for old Prohibition offences.
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Evening Star, Issue 21638, 6 February 1934, Page 9
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101PROHIBITION VIOLATORS Evening Star, Issue 21638, 6 February 1934, Page 9
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