Bivins v. City of Montgomery

(1, 2) The defendant (appellant) was charged with the violation of a municipal ordinance, in that he did within the city limits a telegraph business for which a license was required by an ordinance of the city without first obtaining such license. The bill of exceptions, which, purports to set out all the evidence, shows that the city introduced in evidence an ordinance requiring the taking out of a license, and fixing the amount thereof, for the doing of such business in the city, but in such ordinance no penalty is fixed for the failure of any person, doing such business, to take out a…