Section 28-4-310
Governor charged with supervision, etc., of enforcement of prohibition laws; Governor may require reports from officers charged with duty of enforcing laws; failure of officer to make report, etc.
In order for the Governor to perform the duties imposed upon him by the Constitution, that he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed, he is made the executive head of the law-enforcement machinery of the state and is charged with supervising and directing the enforcement of the laws of the state for the promotion of temperance and the suppression of the evils of intemperance and he is authorized to supervise, direct and give orders to any and all officers of the state or of any county in the state in regard to the exercise of their powers in the performance of their duties in respect to the enforcement of said laws.
The Governor may, as he deems desirable, call upon said officers for reports to be made directly to him concerning any action they may have or may not have taken in enforcing said laws and for reports concerning conditions that may exist, calling for increased diligence in reference to said law enforcement, and all such officers shall strictly obey his orders and directions and make any reports called for and, in the event of a failure to do so or to carry out any instruction of the Governor in respect to the enforcement of said laws, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor in office and may be punished, on conviction, by a fine not exceeding $50.00 and by imprisonment not exceeding 12 months at hard labor for the county, to be fixed in the discretion of the court or judge trying the case.
(Acts 1919, No. 7, p. 6; Code 1923, §4790; Code 1940, T. 29, §259.)