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Show UTAH LIQUOR LAW GIVEN BROADSIDE SALT LAKE. Nov. f. Appearing before the supreme court of t'tah yes-: terday, Attorney William Newton told ! that body that ihe possession 'of lltjuor i a privilege in which citizens of thel I nltcd States are protetced by thel Fourteenth amendment "to the federal constitution That amendment says! that no state may abridge the pi hi-J leges of any citiztu of- the United State - Such a clause being in the federal constitution, Mr. Newton argued that the Utah constitution Is unconstitutional unconstitu-tional whenever legislation is attempted at-tempted under it to prevent possession i of intoxicating liquor. The Volstead act, Mr. Newton holds, gives the citl-I zens such a pi i ilege and th" state may not lake it from him. The case came to the state supreme ourt on the appeal of Mrs. Jean Johnson, from whose home was taken tome Intoxicating liquor. After decision deci-sion before Judge L. B. Wight, Mrs. Johnson appealed the case to the supreme su-preme court, and it was stipulated that th i liquors in question were ob-I ob-I Incd by Mrs Johnson for personal us.', and were not purchased since the rial-- prohibition law went into effeci Shirley I'. Jones, assistant city attorney at-torney arguing Cor Lhe state, contended contend-ed that man) courts have already d -cided that to deprive a man of lritol-i lritol-i a;n; liquor Is not o deprive him o! life, liberty and the pursuit of happi-nesa happi-nesa as guaranteed bj the federal constitution. con-stitution. Justice s. it. Thur ma. n remarked re-marked incidentally that not all per sons would agree wlih such an interpretation, inter-pretation, so far as concerns the pur- tulL of happiness. |