“MOONSHINE” AND MURDER
CAPITAL SENTENCE FOR DOPE SELLERS. PROVIDED BY SOME STATES. NEW YORK, March 7. Several mid-Western State legisla. tures have passed, or are considering, Bills characterising the sale of intoxicants, causing death, as murder and imposing murder or manslaughter sen. tences upon those selling it. Oklahoma has already passed-a law terming the sale of such things as wood alcohol as murder. Ohio has passed a similar law, making it a crime, in the second degree of murder. Kansas and Indi_ ana have Bills pending, providing mur. der sentences. lowa has passed a law providing for punishment as for manslaughter, while Michigan has a similar Bill pending,
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Shannon News, 9 March 1923, Page 3
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108“MOONSHINE” AND MURDER Shannon News, 9 March 1923, Page 3
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