State v. Bowers

Information against the appellee for exhibiting a concert for pay without having obtained a license, &c. On the defendant’s motion, the information was quashed, on the ground that there was not “any law, valid under the constitution, authorizing or requiring a license to exhibit for pay, any concert, within the state of Indiana.”

The act of 1857 (Acts of 1857, p. 89), which was in force at the time of the alleged exhibition, expressly requires a license to exhibit for pay any concert. The question arises whether this act, so far as it relates to any con-' cert, was enacted in accordance with…