People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — DISPENSARY LAW INVALID. [ARTICLE]

DISPENSARY LAW INVALID.

Cannot Prevent Importation of Liquor— Registration Act Unconstitutional. Columbia, S. C\, May B.—Judges Slmonton and Goff have decided that the provision of the state dispensary law preventing importations of liquor foi private use in the state Is contrary to the interstate commerce act and is null and void. An injunction has been issued restraining the seizure of such liquor. The contempt proceedings against Liquor Commissioner Mixson and Constables Davis and Lafar were dismissed. Judge Goff also declared the registration law unconstitutional and issued an order restraining Supervisor Green from performing the duties of his office.