City of St. Louis v. Williams
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction; — ■ . Hon. W. A. Taylor, Judge. The charge of the information is a violation by the defendant of a city ordinance. The only ordinance offered in evidence, claimed by the city at the trial to have been violated, is contained in sections 1553, 1554, 1555 and 1557, of the general ordinances of the city. The defendant was convicted solely for an act claimed to have been a violation of this ordinance.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction; — ■ . Hon. W. A. Taylor, Judge. The charge of the information is a violation by the defendant of a city ordinance. The only ordinance offered in evidence, claimed by the city at the trial to have been violated, is contained in sections 1553, 1554, 1555 and 1557, of the general ordinances of the city. The defendant was convicted solely for an act claimed to have been a violation of this ordinance. Our point is that article 4, section 53, of the Constitution of Missouri provides that the ordinances of the City of St. Louis shall always be “in…
1Opinion of the Court
BLAIR, C.
— By an ordinance of the city of St. Louis, of date March 19, 1907, it was required that on every automobile operated in that city there be displayed, in a prescribed way, for the purpose of identification, the number' of its city license, the sections in question reading as follows:-
“Section 1553. That hereafter, all automobiles operated in the city of St. Louis, shall display identification numbers as herein provided. Such numbers shall be not less than five inches high, and the line marking the numbers shall be white and be five-eighths of an inch wide at every point and such…
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