Kendall v. State

BROOKS, Judge.

This is a conviction for pursuing the occupation of a retail liquor dealer without having first paid the tax therefor. The evidence shows that appellant was pursuing the occupation of a malt liquor dealer during the month of May, 1907, and the indictment so alleges. The tax levied upon the sale of malt liquors by the Act of the last Legislature, known as the Baskin-McGregor law, was the sum of $62.50. The law further provides that the county can. levy half of the amount of said State tax. Appellant contends that this case should be reversed because ihe court, instead of charging…