Legal Opinion
Duckworth v. Arkansas
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided December 15, 1941No. 43PublishedCited by 117 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Stone
Appellant was convicted and fined by an Arkansas court for transporting intoxicating liquor through the state without a permit as required by an Arkansas statute. The question for decision is whether this statutory requirement and its penal sanction unduly encroach upon the power over interstate commerce delegated to Congress. *392The Arkansas Supreme Court sustained the requirement of the permit as a local police regulation permissible under the commerce clause. 201 Ark. 1123, 148 S. W. 2d 656. The case comes here on appeal under the provisions' of § 237 (a) of the Judicial Code, 28 U. S. C. §…
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