Hirschfelder v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Error to the Circuit Court of Cotiecuh. Tried before the Hon. John J. Woodward. The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the' Circuit Court of Conecuh county on an indictment, of which fhe following is a copy: “ State of Alabama — Conecuh County, Circuit Court — Fall Term 1849. ) ) The grand jurors for said State and County, on their oaths present that Emanuel Hirschfelder, late of said county, ’being then'and there a pedler, did on the first day 'of September,…
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Error to the Circuit Court of Cotiecuh. Tried before the Hon. John J. Woodward. The plaintiff in error was tried and convicted in the' Circuit Court of Conecuh county on an indictment, of which fhe following is a copy: “ State of Alabama — Conecuh County, Circuit Court — Fall Term 1849. ) ) The grand jurors for said State and County, on their oaths present that Emanuel Hirschfelder, late of said county, ’being then'and there a pedler, did on the first day 'of September, Eighteen hundred and forty-nine, in said county, sell absolutely to one Abram Russell, Sen’r, and others, two bonnets, and…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, J.
The Attorney General contends that if tíié indictment be defective under the act of 1848, it is good under the act of 1837, (Clay’s Digest, p. 562, § 27.) The first séction of the latter act (ib. § 26,) authorised the Commissioners Court to prescribe the sums to be paid in their respective counties 'by every há'wker, or ped’fer of elócks, or 'dther goods, wares, or merchandise of any kind whatever, for a license for every wagofl; pack horse; carriage or cart, by them *115employed for pedling, but the sum to be paid for the license was, in no county, to be less than fifty dollars. Under that ac't…
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