State v. Duckworth
Idaho Supreme Court
APPEAL from District Court, Oneida County. This is a criminal action in which the defendant is charged by the district attorney’s information with bringing sheep into Idaho without first having complied with the provisions of what is commonly known as the “Scab Law/’ passed at the fourth session of the Idaho legislature, and approved March 12, 1897. (See Sess.
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APPEAL from District Court, Oneida County. This is a criminal action in which the defendant is charged by the district attorney’s information with bringing sheep into Idaho without first having complied with the provisions of what is commonly known as the “Scab Law/’ passed at the fourth session of the Idaho legislature, and approved March 12, 1897. (See Sess. Laws, 1897, p. 115.) If the “Scab Law” defines the acts complained of as a penal offense, then the provisions of the law are repugnant to the constitution of the United States. Respondent may say the general language of the act and of…
1Opinion of the CourtShlliyan, C. J.
The appellant, who was the defendant in the court below, was convicted of the crime of bringing sheep into the state without having first obtained the certificate or permit of the deputy sheep inspector. He waived a jury trial, and the case was submitted to the court on a written stipula*645tion of facts. The defendant was found guilty, and sentenced to pay a fine of $100, and five cents per head on 3,000 head of sheep, from which judgment this appeal was taken.
The appellant contends that said judgment is erroneous, because the act of the state legislature under which he was convicted is…
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