Crow v. State
Supreme Court of Missouri
APPEAL from St. Louis Criminal Court. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. Crow and others, defendants, were jointly indicted by the grand jury of St, Louis county for dealing as merchants without a license as required by law.
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APPEAL from St. Louis Criminal Court. STATEMENT OF THE CASE. Crow and others, defendants, were jointly indicted by the grand jury of St, Louis county for dealing as merchants without a license as required by law. The indictment contains six counts substantially as follows : The first count charges that defendants, as co-partners in trade as merchants at St. Louis county, on, &c., and divers other days and times between that day and the day of the finding of this indictment, unlawfully did receive for sale, and unlawfully did deal as merchanls in the selling of goods, wares and merchandise,…
1Opinion of the CourtBirch, J.
It is deemed unnecessary to allude further to the statement which was agreed upon as furnishing the basis for our decision in this case, than to remark, that the point which it was mainly intended to present for our consideration, was and is, whether the act of the 12th March, 1849, in connexion with the act of the 25th March, 1845, “to license and tax merchants,” is authorized under the constitution of the United States and this State.
The circumstances under which a necessarily hasty, and, therefore, “concededly incomplete” opinion was written and rendered in the case at the last term of…
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