State v. Hudson

This suit is based on an information filed in the St. Louis Court of Criminal Correction charging the defendant and Helen Meyer with violating the "Blue Sky" law, being section 11931, Revised Statutes 1919, which section makes it unlawful to sell the stocks, bonds or other securities of an investment company that has not complied with the provisions of article 7, chapter 108, Revised Statutes 1919.

Upon a trial the defendant was convicted and his punishment assessed at a fine of five hundred dollars. From this judgment he appeals.

Although section 736, Revised Statutes 1919, provides that…