State v. Williams
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction. — Hon. Willis H. Glarh, Judge. The act approved April 7, 1897 (Laws 1897, p. 100), is prohibited by sections 1 and 53, art. 4 of the Constitution of Missouri, and section 1, art. 14 of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, (a) As to violation of amendment 14, Federal Constitution, see: Cooley, Const. Lim.
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Appeal from St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction. — Hon. Willis H. Glarh, Judge. The act approved April 7, 1897 (Laws 1897, p. 100), is prohibited by sections 1 and 53, art. 4 of the Constitution of Missouri, and section 1, art. 14 of the amendments to the Constitution of the United States, (a) As to violation of amendment 14, Federal Constitution, see: Cooley, Const. Lim. (6 Ed.), 481; Geoza v. Freman, 148 U. S. 657; Railroad v. Pennsylvania, 134 U. S. 232; Yocum v. Hopkins, 118 U. S. 356; Missouri v. Lewis, 101 U. S. 22; Barbier v. Connoly, 113 U. S. 27; Slaughter House Cases, 16 Wall.…
1Opinion of the CourtBurgess, C. J.
On the nineteenth day of January, 1900, the defendant was convicted in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction, and fined one thousand dollars, under an information filed in said court against him and others, by the prosecuting attorney of said court, charging them with bookmaking and pool-selling, in violation of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Missouri entitled “An Act to punish book-making and pool-selling by unlicensed persons, to provide for the issuance of such a license and to dispose of the funds arising from such license,” approved April 7, 1897, at No. 112 North…
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