De Santiego v. State

KRUEGER, Judge.

Appellant was convicted of the offense of doing business as an employment agent without first having obtained a license to engage in such business from the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, and his punishment was assessed at confinement in the county jail for a period of three months and a fine of $500.00.

The prosecution is based upon Section 16 of Chapter 67, Acts of the 48th Legislature, Regular Session (1943), which section reads as follows: “Whoever acts as an employment or labor agent or conducts an employment office in any county in this State without having first filed…