State v. Norvell
Tennessee Supreme Court
FROM GRUNDY. Error to the Circuit Court of Grundy County.— FeaNK L. Lynch, Judge.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Green
The defendants in error, undertakers, doing’ business in Tracy City, were indicted for handling and removing a dead body from the Fourth civil district of Grundy county without a permit for the removal of the said body. The indictment Was based on chapter 30 of the Acts of 1913, known as the “ Vital Statistics Law. ”
A motion to quash was filed by the defendants in error, in which the constitutionality of the act, as well as the sufficiency of the indictment, was challenged. The motion to quash was sustained; the trial judge being of opinion that the act was unconstitutional. The State has…
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