Ex Parte Crouch
Supreme Court of the United States
ORIGINAL. This was a motion for leave to file a petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The grounds for the motion are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
This petition is denied. The general revenue law of Virginia provides that no person shall do business in the State as a “ sample merchant ” until he has obtained a license therefor, on payment of a tax of seventy-five dollars; and that, if he does, he shall pay a fine of five hundred dollars for the first' offence, and six hundred dollars for each succeeding offence. Acts of Virginia, 1881, ch. 115, §§ 30, 31, pp. 578, 579. The petitioner has been informed against, and is now held in custody for trial by order of the Hustings Court of the City of Richmond, for a violation of this law.…
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