Chambers v. State

The indictment in this case charges that the defendant did “unlawfully conduct and offer to conduct the business of an emigrant agent without first registering with the ordinary of said county, and paying the tax of $500.00 as required by law.” There was a verdict of guilty, and a sentence of one thous- and dollars or six months in the chain-gang. On the trial Lester Davis testified: “Wednesday morning of this week Mr. Vaughan brought me and Gordon Bates to court to Cartersville, and we came on the L. & N. train. Soon after we arrived- and I were standing at the depot here in Cartersville;…