Taylor v. State

— At the September term, 1842, of the Gibson Circuit Court, Taylor was indicted for selling tea without license. At the September term, 1843, he was tried and found guilty of the offence.

The indictment was founded upon the fifty-fifth section of the act respecting crime and punishment, by which it was enacted that every person who should vend merchandize, not the product of the United States, without license, &c., should be fined, &c.- R. S. 1838, p. 217. In January, 1843, the legislature repealed “so much of the act entitled ‘An act relative to crime and punishment,’ &c., as requires a…