City of Winfield v. Bell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Johnston, C. J.:

This case involves the validity of a provision of the road law recently enacted which requires the payment of a poll tax and provides that any one failing to pay the tax shall, upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor. (Laws 1911, ch. 248, § 36.) The appellant resisted the payment of the tax on the ground that the provision imposing a penalty for nonpayment is not within the title of the act. The title is, “An act in relation to roads and highways,” and repealing certain acts and parts of acts which are named. This is one of…