Commonwealth v. Maury
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, rendered July 21st, 1884, upon an indictment against R. L. Maury for unlawfully selling coupons cut from bonds of the State of Virginia, without having first obtained the license required by law. The defendant moved the court to quash the indictment upon the ground that the statute on which the indictment was founded is repugnant to both the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Virginia.
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Error to a judgment of the hustings court of the city of Richmond, rendered July 21st, 1884, upon an indictment against R. L. Maury for unlawfully selling coupons cut from bonds of the State of Virginia, without having first obtained the license required by law. The defendant moved the court to quash the indictment upon the ground that the statute on which the indictment was founded is repugnant to both the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of Virginia. The hustings court sustained this motion, and the' Commonwealth excepted and obtained a writ of error and supersedeas…
1Opinion of the CourtRichardson, J.
In the view taken of the question, this section need only be subjected to the test of the fourteenth section of the fifth article of the Virginia Constitution, which, among other things, provided that: “ The General Assembly shall not pass * * * any law impairing the obligation of contracts ”; and of the tenth section of the first article of the Federal Constitution, which is to the same effect.
The history of the State debt of Virginia, and of the legislation attempting its settlement, and of the action of the State and federal courts touching that legislation, are matters of well known…
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