liquor constable

An officer appointed under the laws of South Carolina to aid in the enforcement of a statute to prevent the storage and sale of intoxicating liquors. "South Carolina seems to have been on the verge of civil war. The opposition to the Dispensary Law in Dar. lington, which had been very strong from the beginning, culminated last week in a conflict between citizens and liquor- constables , or "whisky spies," as they are called, in which two citizens were killed and several wounded." The Literary Digest (N. Y.), April 14, 1894.