State v. Moorehead
Supreme Court of South Carolina
Before Fraser, J., Bichland, March, 1894. I. H. Moorehead was tried and convicted before a trial justice for selling a sewing machine as a hawker and peddler without license so to do.
1Opinion of the Court
The opinion of the court was delivered by
Mr. Chief Justice McIver.
The defendant has been indicted for, and convicted of, a violation of the act of 1893, entitled, “An act to amend the law as to hawkers and peddlers” (21 Stat., 407); and this appeal presents two questions: 1st. Whether the defendant is a hawker and peddler, and as such amenable to the provisions of said act. 2d. If so, whether the act is constitutional.
We do not understand that the act of 1893 purports either to define the long established offence of hawking and peddling, or to enlarge its definition, as heretofore recognized,…
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