Wade v. Commonwealth

Opinion by

Judge Pryor:

The appellant was tried before a justice of the peace and fined one hundred dollars for peddling without a license. The warrant or summons charges the appellant with the offense of peddling in Monroe county, Kentucky, alleging that “in August, IS79, he unlawfully peddled goods by then and there selling goods, wares and merchandise consisting of shoes, prints, sugar, coffee, and notions of all kinds, without a license so to do, contrary to the form- of the statute.”

The fine was imposed by a justice, and an appeal taken to the circuit court as authorized by the statute.…