State v. Silverman
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Appeal, from a conviction before the police court of Allenstown upon a complaint for dealing in junk -without a license. Transferred from the April term, 1908, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J., upon an agreed statement of facts. The defendant was licensed as a dealer in junk in Manchester. He had no place of business in Allenstown and no license from the selectmen of that town, in which chapter 124, Public Statutes, is in force.
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Appeal, from a conviction before the police court of Allenstown upon a complaint for dealing in junk -without a license. Transferred from the April term, 1908, of the superior court by Wallace, C. J., upon an agreed statement of facts. The defendant was licensed as a dealer in junk in Manchester. He had no place of business in Allenstown and no license from the selectmen of that town, in which chapter 124, Public Statutes, is in force. May 28, 1908, he bought and attempted to buy in Allenstown old junk, old metal, etc., of several adults originally offering such materials for sale, collected…
1Opinion of the CourtParsons, C. J.
The ozzly questiozi argued * is whether the respondent is a dealer in old junk, old metals, etc., izi Allenstown, within the meaning of section 4, chapter 124, Public Statutes, which provides that azzy person who shall be a dealer in such articles without a license izz any town which has adopted the provisiozzs of the act shall be fizzed and iznprisoned. The respondent is a dealer. His busizzess is to buy and sell. State v. Cohen, 73 N. H. 543, 546. Whether he is, within the meaning of the act, a dealer in Allenstown where he buys, or in Manchester where he sells, or in neither, because of…
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