City of St. Louis v. Bircher

The defendant was fined in the First District Police Court of the city of St. Louis for the violation of a city ordinance in keeping a hotel without a license. On appeal to the Court of Criminal Correction, the judgment was affirmed ; and the defendant thereupon appealed to this court.

*170The ordinance under which the fine was imposed is, in every aspect having relation to the municipal authority for its enactment, identical with the ordinances which were fully considered in the cases of City of St. Louis v. Green, 6 Mo. App. 591, and City of St. Louis v. Sternberg, 4 Mo. App. 453. These…