The Camden Weekly Journal

The Anti Liquor Law Sustained.—A Mr. J. J. Watts, not having the fear of God before his eyes, and being instigated by the devil, opened a grogshop in the town of Raymond on the 28th ult., against the peace and order of the town, and the dignity of the law. He was carried before a magistrate, who ordered him to give bond in the sum of one thousand dollars for his appearance before the Hinds Circuit Court for an infraction of the statute; but he refused to give bond, and was accordingly lodged in jail. On Monday he was brought to Jackson on a writ of Habeas Corpus, and on the following day the case was heard before Chief Justice Smith, of the Court of Appeals who held the act to be constitutional and refused to discharge the prisoner but upon bail. This decision having been made by a single member of the High Court, on a Habeas Corpus, does not finally settle the constitutionality of the law, but as it was made by the very able Chief Justice of the Court, it is "persuasive evidence" of its constitutionality.

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