Westinghausen v. People

Plaintiff was convicted under the Liquor Law of 1879 of selling liquor without having paid the required tax.

The case comes up on two specified objections to the constitutionality of the law — First, that the amendment whereby the anti-license clause in the original constitution was repealed, was not lawfully submitted to the people; and second, that the law does not indicate the object to which the tax is to be applied.

This last point refers to article 14, § 14, of the Constitution, which declares that “ Every law which imposes, continues, or revives a tax, shall distinctly state the tax, and…