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Show COURT DECIDES OFFICERS MUST ENFORCE 'DRY' LAW SACRAMENTO Cal., Jan. 7. Police otfleers, municipal or state as well as federal, are In duty bound to piake ar lfsts for toluliuri of the natioJiul prohibition pro-hibition law, according to :i decision rendered by the third district court "i appeals In th ease of Sacramento I county against Patrolman Elliott B. Harris of the local polico force. Harris was indicted last June by the I grand Jury on a charge of offering projection pro-jection from arrest to Gcorgo Argantei In the sale of alcoholic liquors It was ; claimed Harris received a bribe of Ju Ph case was appealed by Harris In the local superior court on tho ground of jurisdiction. Tho court declares that congress is not given exclusive Jurisdiction in the enforcement of national prohibition. and that under the penal statutes,; and municipal courts have equal, ! powers. |