Ambrose v. State

Indictment for retailing without license, found under the R. S. 1843. The record shows the act complained of to have been done in the city of Madison, under a license from that city.

The city of Madison granted the license, under an act passed subsequent to the R. S. 1843. Local Laws 1848, p. 92. And it is insisted that the latter act, so far as the corporate limits of the city were concerned, controlled the former act.

We can not carry repeal by implication that far. “ Fixing rates and granting a license by the city excuses from *352liability to the city ordinances, but can not excuse from…