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    "parties": [
      "STATE v. S. L. FREEMAN, W. O. GORE, and WILLIAM J. PRESTON."
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    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "Stacy, C. J.\nThe motions in arrest of judgment for uncertainty in the warrants and failure to charge the defendants with the commission of a crime must be allowed on authority of S. v. Julian, 214 N. C., 574, 200 S. E., 24; S. v. Williams, 210 N. C., 159, 185 S. E., 661; and S. v. Ingle, 214 N. C., 276, 199 S. E., 10.\nOur attention has been called to no statute, county or city ordinance, requiring a license, to \u201cengage in the business of employing peddlers.\u201d Even if it be conceded, as the State contends, that under ch. 127, Public Laws 1937 (Revenue Act), any person, firm or corporation \u201cemploying the services of another as a peddler\u201d is made liable for the peddler\u2019s tax therein imposed, it does not follow that the employer must obtain a license as well as the peddler employed. S. v. Smith, 211 N. C., 206, 189 S. E., 509.\nWhether the defendants would be liable for failure to procure licenses for peddlers employed by them is not presented by the record.\nJudgment arrested.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Attorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorneys-General Bruton and Patton for the State.",
      "J. Henry LeRoy for defendants."
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    "head_matter": "STATE v. S. L. FREEMAN, W. O. GORE, and WILLIAM J. PRESTON.\n(Filed 20 September, 1939.)\nCriminal Law \u00a7 56: Taxation \u00a7 23 \u2014 Statute held not to impose tax on business of employing peddlers, and motion in arrest on warrant charging that offense is allowed.\nEven conceding that ch. 127, Public Laws of 1937, renders persons employing peddlers liable for the peddlers\u2019 tax therein imposed on their employees, defendants\u2019 motion in arrest of judgment on a warrant charging that they \u201cengaged in the business of employing peddlers without obtaining licenses to do so\u201d fails to charge a crime, since the statute does not require a license to \u201cengage in the business of employing peddlers,\u201d and defendants\u2019 motion in arrest of judgment for uncertainty and failure to charge them with the commission of a crime is allowed.\nAppeal by defendants from Gowper, Special Judge, at February Term, 1939, of PasquotaNK.\nCriminal prosecutions, tried upon warrants charging that the defendants did, on or about 1 June, 1938, in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, \u201cunlawfully, willfully, engage in the business of employing peddlers on a salary or commission basis without obtaining State and/or County and/or City license so to do.\u201d\nFrom special verdict, pronouncements of guilty and judgments thereon, the defendants, and each of them, appeals, assigning errors.\nAttorney-General McMullan and Assistant Attorneys-General Bruton and Patton for the State.\nJ. Henry LeRoy for defendants."
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