Bostick v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Garland Circuit Court. Hon. J. B. Wood, Circuit Judge. This prosecution is instituted under Secs. 6‡10, 6317 and 1839, Mansf. Dig. 1. There is no offense proved in the agreed statement.
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APPEAL from Garland Circuit Court. Hon. J. B. Wood, Circuit Judge. This prosecution is instituted under Secs. 6‡10, 6317 and 1839, Mansf. Dig. 1. There is no offense proved in the agreed statement. In Baker v. State, ‡‡ Ark., this court says: “ The construction of the taxation of privileges involved the decisions of this court in some confusion at an early day, and in Washington v. State, 13 Ark., 752, in an attempt to extricate itself from this difficulty, the court held that there was no restraint upon the legislature to authorize counties and towns to regulate and tax callings and…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
The prosecuting attorney filed before a justice of the peace of Garland county an information, under oath, charging Mrs. Bostick with keeping a public tavern without license. After a demurrer to the information had been overruled, a trial was had, resulting in her conviction, and she appealed. In the circuit court she unsuccessfully renewed her objections to the sufficiency of the information to state any offense known to our laws. And upon a trial anew before the court, without a jury, she was again convicted and condemned to pay a find of #>10 and costs. ,
1. Taverns:— Must be licens'd
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Munn v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
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