*1 OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF TEXAS AUSTIN GROVER SELLERS
ATTORNEY GENEnrr
Honorable Bert Ford, kdmlnietrator Texas Liquor Control Board
Austin, Texas
D8ar Sir: Oplniaa 80.
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*2.. 16 it neooaaat tha to allegs an4 prom arlglnal eloot i en w tm moot rqourt, aleotion in ridoh absolute pm%UbltiOrp was estabU.@ha&, en& to ohranalof&aaUjr p rslr out th e r8a alta of a4bsoWUkt l 106- ‘ticmu $,a whioh the sale of bsar anLJ had baaa lsgallnced, and that lage4~izfng the sale of all alaohollc baveraWm hd la a vota uptm the Ssmae aubaltted failed to the people9 *2 fioncuwbls Bert PxY%, page 2
"3* would there bs surfioient evld%mu to
oyd that~the 861s of liquor 1s uplawful a ahtnrlng that et a givein time an slso- EI .tlon bad bean ~suoaesnfully carried to prohibit the sale of all alcohollo bev- ' oragse, and that oubeoqwntly no, elaotlori had bean bald In this wxmty hevlng the effeot ot la&elizlng the aale of liquor?* ‘&bile ws have not toun4 inny appellate CoupI deoiofon In point u on the qIlertlom3 gmQlnmds4, we ba+s giran 0are;fUl. ~onaUara J on to the mme, and we hate raaohed tha foll~~#ring[ axloluaMr t
Honorable Ret Foxd, ps$e 3 wlth5.n the co~urity. It ie OUP opinion that the legal .etatua ot fob pr ocntuu (4%) beer was not altered bg the 1940 sladtlon; failure to legeli all liqUOrs did not =%$%%d prohibit the sale, etc..of the beer, nhics had beon by the 1939 sleotion.
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