State v. . Moore
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Constitution — Statutes—Police Power. This was an indictment originating before the Court of á Justice of the Peace and tried on appeal in the Superior Court of NORTHAMPTON, at Pall Term, before Boykin, J., for a violation of chapter 81, Laws‘of 1887, as amended by-chapter, 321, Laws of 1889, in selling cotton contrary to the provisions of said chapters.
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Constitution — Statutes—Police Power. This was an indictment originating before the Court of á Justice of the Peace and tried on appeal in the Superior Court of NORTHAMPTON, at Pall Term, before Boykin, J., for a violation of chapter 81, Laws‘of 1887, as amended by-chapter, 321, Laws of 1889, in selling cotton contrary to the provisions of said chapters. The jury impaneled in the Superior Court returned a special verdict as follows: “ We find that the defendant John E. Moore, at and in the county of Northampton, on the 25th day of September, 1889, received and purchased of James J. Martin and…
1Opinion of the CourtAvery, J.
— after stating the case: The police power of the State is the authority, vested in the Legislature by the Constitution, to enact all such wholesome and reasonable laws, not in conflict with the fundamental laws—the Constitution of the State and the United States, together with laws made in pursuance of it — as they may deem conducive to public good. Carr v. Alger, 7 Cush., 84. The question being whether the law-making branch of the State government has exceeded the limits of its power, as defined in that instrument, it is the duty of the Courts to resolve every doubt in favor of the validity…
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