Busey v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
Appellants were convicted, in the Police Court, of selling magazines on the streets of the District of Columbia without taking ■out a license or paying a tax. Each was sentenced to a fine of five dollars, or one day in jail. We allowed an appeal.
Appellants stood on the sidewalk, at the corner of Park Road and 14th St. N. W., carrying bags which contained copies of Consolation and of Watch Tower, two magazines published by or for Jehovah’s Witnesses. The bags, and also placards which appellants displayed, were lettered to show that the magazines were for sale at…
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