I wanted to go to law school until I screwed myself out of a place at the dinning room table.......But, if I had the money or education, I would love to fight this. Franklin county, in south Miss.-----the voters continue to vote this to be a dry county. I have no problem with that. All it meant to me, was that I could not own a state liquor store or a supermarket (mini store) that sold the evil brews. Lately, I found this to be true. I can go to the neighboring county's 24 hr. Walmart and buy $300 worth of groceries and two cases of beer. On my way home (in Franklin Co.), I drive 70 on Hwy 84 which has a speed limit of 65 mph. If I am stopped and the officer sees all the food and some beer, I just got busted for illegal possession of alcohol. No cans open. No beer consumed prior. Once it is at my home, it is fine. I can drink all I want. If I throw a crawfish boil, and the police park down the road, waiting for my guest to leave in order to ticker---so be it. Question? How do beer delivery trucks pass through going to another county, do so legally? :cuss: :angryfire :dis: :hihi: If they can do this, what stops them from this. Same scenario as any eating establishment.... NO SMOKING---You can buy smokes in the neighboring counties and smoke all you want at home. But if you are caught transporting the weeds, you are busted. If you are on vacation, simply spending time at the house, and decide to go to "Buger King"---what happens if you don't leave the smokes at home and get caught?
Sounds like a crappy place to live. You left louisiana for that?! (didn't you used to live in louisiana?)
Damn Col Reb, did you actually get busted for driving home with unopened beer???? Holy $hit, I have trouble even pondering that. If you did, all I can say is pick up extra shells 'cuz it's just about go time.
By enactment of the Local Option Alcoholic Beverage Control Law, Chapter 540, Laws of Mississippi 1966, the Legislature re-announced the prohibition of the manufacture, sale, distribution, possession and transportation of intoxicating liquor except in those counties voting themselves out from under the prohibition law in accordance with the provisions of the act. Section 10265-108 Mississippi Code of 1942 Annotated (Supp.1971) provides: If transportation requires passage through a county which has not authorized the sale of alcoholic beverages, such transportation shall be by a sealed vehicle. Appellee was transporting intoxicating liquor in a dry county in an unsealed vehicle in open view of any person who happened to look into the open bed of the pickup truck. The appellee did not violate any law with reference to intoxicating liquor until he transported it into a dry county in violation of Section 10265-108, supra, but upon carrying the intoxicating *525 liquor into a dry county his possession then became illegal. State v. Thrash 257 So.2d 523 Miss. 1972. If that alcohol is in a locked trunk, then you are fine... this hasn't been overruled.
Also, beer truck drivers must have the wholesale reciept and some consignment papers if pulled over, and the truck must be sealed. The law is really strange because they give permits for people using alcohol to cook with, manufacture things etc... but the only info I can find on private citizens is the case above.
Sealed? what exactly is "sealed".. shrink wrap? or just in the rear of the van.. in that case, seems like a trunk would suffice...
sealed is a compartment, seperate from the cab of the vehicle that is closed and locked. So trunk or bed of a truck with a top or solid camper shell. In the back of a van or SUV probably wouldn't constitute sealed.
