Morrill v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
ERROR to the Circuit Court for Dane County. The plaintiff in error was prosecuted and convicted in the municipal court of Madison for a violation of ch. 72, Laws of 1870, concerning hawkers and peddlers.
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ERROR to the Circuit Court for Dane County. The plaintiff in error was prosecuted and convicted in the municipal court of Madison for a violation of ch. 72, Laws of 1870, concerning hawkers and peddlers. The charge in the complaint is, that he traveled from place to place in Dane county “for the purpose of carrying to sell and exposing to sale certain goods, wares and merchandise, to wit, sewing machines, without having obtained a license as hawker and peddler according to law, and the said sewing machines not being the work or production or manufacture of the said Morrill, manufactured or…
1Opinion of the CourtLyon, J.
I. The learned counsel for the plaintiff in error have, without argument, submitted to our consideration the question whether it is competent for the legislature to make it a penal offense for any person to travel from place to place “ for the purpose of carrying to sell, or exposing to sale, any goods, wares and merchandize,” unless such person have a license as a hawker and peddler. . The point of this objection to the validity of the statute seems to be, that the actual sale of the articles is not expressly made an ingredient in the offense.
The statute was doubtless enacted in the interest…
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