Joplin Mercantile Co. v. United States
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction and application of the Federal statutes relating to the introduction of liquor into Indian country within the State of Oklahoma, are stated in the opinion. Unless construed as relinquishing.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction and application of the Federal statutes relating to the introduction of liquor into Indian country within the State of Oklahoma, are stated in the opinion. Unless construed as relinquishing. Federal control of intrastate commerce in intoxicating liquors between other parts of Oklahoma and the former Indian Territory, § 3 of the Oklahoma Enabling Act is repugnant to Art. I, § 8, Const. U. S., as an unconstitutional attempt to authorize concurrent regulation of commerce which must be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Pitney
In the District Court of the United States for the Southwestern Division of the Western District of Missouri the petitioners, Joplin Mercantile Company and Joseph Filler, with others, were indicted, under § 37 of the Criminal Code (Act of March 4,1909, c. 321, 35>Stat. 1088, 1096), formerly, § 5440, Rev. Stat.; the charge being that at Joplin, Missouri, within the jurisdiction of the court, the defendants did unlawfully, feloniously, etc., “conspire together to commit an offense against the United States of America, to wit, to unlawfully, knowingly, and feloniously introduce and attempt to…
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