People v. Jarvis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Edwin C. Jarvis, from a judgment of the County Court of Chenango county, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Chenango on the 21st day of December, 1896,. affirming a judgment of the police justice of the village of Norwich, rendered on July 24, 1896, adjudging him guilty of a misdemeanor in having- violated section 1 of ordinance 7 of said village.
1Opinion of the Court
Parker, P. J.:
The defendant is a resident of the city of Binghamton,, in this State, and is proceeded against for having, in violation of an ordinance of the village of Norwich, peddled and sold goods.from house to house, and taken orders therefor in that village. It. is conceded that he had never taken out the required license. The evidence does not sustain the charge of peddling. The' statement of Mrs. Lucy Peckham is evidently based upon hearsay merely,"and as to-every fact testified to by her should be rejected. The case, therefore, depends entirely upon the evidence of the other witness,…
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