Alexander v. Hunnicutt, Sheriff

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Acting Associate Justice T. D. Tide.

This proceeding was instituted in the original jurisdiction of this Court by permission of the Chief Justice. The verified petition herein alleges that the South Carolina Tax Commission under the authority of Section 101 (1) (a) of Act No. 346, approved July 1, 1939, 41 St. at Targe, p. 650 (the general State Appropriation Act), issued to the petitioner licenses for a large number of coin-operated machines, to which the licenses were attached, and the machines were placed at various business establishments in a…