Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1923-01-04 | Page 4 | Banker Goes to Jail on Rum Ruling

BANKER BANKER G GOES ES TO TOI I JAIL ON RUM RULING I BOISE DOISE Idaho Jan The I-The 1 The su- su supreme u-prem u preme court of ot this state has ruled on tho prohibition act acl in this state In I relation to the law In the case aso of ot the state against t Raymond Raymon Moore prominent Dolse Boise banker whose in the tb court for fot forAda forAda AdL Ada county Is sustained and who I must serve unless he b appeals a 11 jail sentence co and pay a fine for tor vIolating the prohibition law I This case cas Is one on of the most unusual that has been carried to 10 the courts The defendant admitted through stipulation I that he had in Iii his possession liquor In his home borne as charged by the state that such pos poe possession possession session was then and there admitted I by the tho pi of o section 33 of ot the act tint this section guaran guarantees tees lees to 10 every citizen n the rIght to have I liquor in his private dwelling lIIng that by the th act It 11 was the intention of congress to establish national polIcy pol I icy be on which chich state slat laws might not go eo In the tho direction ot of o prohibition Moore wa was wat found Cound guilty of ot unlawful possession lon of ot Intoxicating liquors in inthe the sen district court fined 50 and sen-I sen sen sentenced to serve servo thirty days in jail I From the judgment he appealed The fhe supreme court In sustaining the judg judgment mont ment of conviction holds there is no I conflict bel between the act antI and ll the tho Idaho prohibition law that it the federal statute compelled or permitted I ted citizens to have hav in their d stocks of despite a state stale prohibition th the nullifying of this law by congress contreas would not aid In Inthe inthe Inthe I the enforcement of ot prohibition but would tend lend strongly to defeat such en enforcement