State v. . Barnes
Supreme Court of North Carolina
■ INDICTMENT for engaging in the .business of a lumber-dealer without having paid the license tax required by the-Revenue Act of 1899, chap. 11, secs. 58 and 11, tried before Robinson, J., at Spring Term, 1900, of ALEXANDER Superior Court. Upon the special verdict rendered in the case, his Honor-adjudged the defendant guilty, and the jury so> found. Judgment that defendant pay a penny and the costs. Defendant appealed. The special verdict appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtDouglas, J.
The following is the special verdict:
That the defendant is a merchant in the town of Taylors-ville, whose business and occupation by which he makes his living is to buy and sell goods, wares and general merchandise such as are usually kept in a small town in a general store for sale- or barter. He sells his goods for cash or exchanges them for such produce as is usually offered by customers to persons engaged in such business.
That while engaged in such business as a merchant, the ■defendant occasionally obtained from a customer in the regular course of his business, a load of shingles which…
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