State v. Dinnisse

The defendant was prosecuted in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction, for violating the provisions of an act of the legislature adopted in 1885. The title to the act reads as follows : “ An act to protect the property of manufacturers, bottlers and dealers in mineral waters, soda water and other beverages from the loss of their syphons, bottles and boxes.” Laws, 1885, p. 151.

The trial court quashed the information, and the state has appealed.

The defendant in his brief challenges the constiiutionality of the law under which he was prosecuted.

The supreme court in the case of State ex rel.…