Alsup v. State

Appellant was convicted of operating an employment agency without procuring a license authorizing him so to do, in violation of act No. 4, Acts Special Session of 1923, page 3.

It is not contended that the act in question was passed as a revenue measure imposing an occupation tax. Sims v. Ahrens, 167 Ark. 557, 271 S. W. 720. It is insisted that, while the act was passed in an attempt to exercise the State’s police power, it is in excess of that power and is violative of the 14th Amendment to the Federal 'Constitution. The essential provisions of the act are as follows:

Section 1 prohibits the…