Commonwealth v. Snyder
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 98, Jan. T., 1894, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Perry Co., Aug. T., 1898, No. 14, on indictment for peddling without a license. Indictment for peddling without a license.
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Appeal, No. 98, Jan. T., 1894, by defendant, from judgment of Q. S. Perry Co., Aug. T., 1898, No. 14, on indictment for peddling without a license. Indictment for peddling without a license. At the trial the defendant presented the following point: The court is respectfully requested to charge the jury that, under the facts proved by the commonwealth and the law, the defendant cannot be convicted for the following reason: Because the act of 1869 is in regulation of trade, not a police regulation, and under the utterance of the Supreme Court in Sayre Borough v. Phillips, 148 Pa. 482, is…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Williams,
This is an appeal by the defendant from a conviction and sentence in the quarter sessions of Perry county for the offense of peddling within the limits of that county in violation of the' act of March 12, 1869. The defendant does not deny the acts *632of selling charged against him, nor that such acts are forbidden by the statute under which these proceedings were begun, but rests his defense upon the position that such prohibition, as applicable to him, is unconstitutional and void. The record raises but one question, viz: the validity o£ the act of 1869. It is to…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- Sayre Borough v. PhillipsSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1892
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