State v. Cohen

The respondent was prosecuted in the Municipal Court for Portland, and tried and convicted, on a complaint charging a violation of provisions of Revised Statutes, Chapter 46, entitled “Itinerant Vendors,” but relating both to such and peddlers. The statute, in its relation to one of the questions the record presents, makes it unlawful for any person to engage in peddling merchandise, without depositing with the Secretary of State five hundred dollars, liable to attachment by creditors, as well as in security for fines and penalties, and taking out and paying for *295State and local licenses, but,…