Short v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dorchester County. The appellant was indicted for a violation of the local road law of Dorchester County, in that, after having been duly summoned by the road supervisor, he refused to work on the roads of said county, or to provide a substitute, or to pay the sum of seventy-five cents in lieu thereof.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Dorchester County. The appellant was indicted for a violation of the local road law of Dorchester County, in that, after having been duly summoned by the road supervisor, he refused to work on the roads of said county, or to provide a substitute, or to pay the sum of seventy-five cents in lieu thereof. A demurrer to the indictment alleged the invalidity of the said road law, being secs. 268-272 of Art. 10 of the Code of Public Local Laws, because in conflict with the 13th and 14th Amendments of the Constitution of the United States, with Art. 3, secs. 33 and…
1Opinion of the CourtRobinson, C. J.
By the Public Local Laws for Dorchester County all able-bodied residents of the county above twenty and under fifty years of age are compelled to labor two days at least in every year in repairing the roads of said county, with the privilege, however, of furnishing a substitute, or paying to the road supervisors seventy-five cents for each day such person may be summoned to labor, the money thus paid to be expended in repairing the roads.
And it further provides that any one neglecting or refusing to perform such labor, or to provide a substitute, or to pay seventy-five cents per day for each…
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