State v. Prudential Coal Co.

*276The Prudential Goal Company was indicted for a violation of Acts 1913 (1st Ex. Sess.), cli. 29, in that it, being the operator of a commissary, unlawfully and willfully failed and refused to pay to one of its employees wages, balance tben due Mm in lawful money, after deducting from Ms wages all amounts furnished .him in the way of cash, supplies, rents, etc., according to statute.

The trial judge sustained a demurrer to the indictment, which demurrer impeached the statute as unconstitutional because in violation of Constitution 1870, art. 1, see. 18: “ The legislature shall pass no law…