Clawans v. District of Columbia

GRONER, Associate Justice.

Criminal information was filed against plaintiff in error (defendant) charging her with having engaged in the business of a railroad ticket broker without obtaining' a license as required by Act of Congress of July I, 1902 (32 Stat. 622, 625, 628 [D. C. Code 1929, T. 20, §§ 861, 885, 912]). The act makes the offense punishable by a fine. She was convicted, and we granted a writ of error in order that we might consider the assignment of error to which we shall now refer.

At the trial several railroad detectives testified they had purchased from defendant return coupons…