State v. Mitchell
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Appeal from the Municipal Court of Skowhegan, -in Somerset County, for violating the Hawkers and Peddlers Law, Stat. of 1901, e. 277. Judgment for defendant. The defendant having been convicted on the following complaint, to which he demurred, appealed to the court sitting at nisi prius. State of Maine. Somerset, ss. To the judge of our Municipal Court of Skowhegan, in the County of Somerset, in constant session for the cognizance of criminal actions.
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Appeal from the Municipal Court of Skowhegan, -in Somerset County, for violating the Hawkers and Peddlers Law, Stat. of 1901, e. 277. Judgment for defendant. The defendant having been convicted on the following complaint, to which he demurred, appealed to the court sitting at nisi prius. State of Maine. Somerset, ss. To the judge of our Municipal Court of Skowhegan, in the County of Somerset, in constant session for the cognizance of criminal actions. Hiram P. Thing of Skowhegan, in the County of Somerset, and State of Maine, in behalf of said State, on oath complains, that Charles W.…
1Opinion of the CourtEmery, J.
The Statute ch. 277 of the Public Laws of 1901 entitled “An Act relating to Hawkers and Peddlers” provides in § 1, that no person shall go about from town to town, or from place to place in the same town, exposing for sale or selling, certain enumerated merchandise, until he shall have procured a license so to do as thereinafter provided. Section 2 provides that the Secretary of State shall grant such license to any person who files in his office a *70specified certificate of good moral character, but not to any other person. Sections 3 and 4 provide that the applicant for such license shall pay…
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