85 Va. 899 | Va. | 1889
delivered the opinion of the court.
The petitioner was convicted of the offense of unlawfully selling coupons cut from the bonds of the State of Virginia, without having first obtained the license therefor required by law. The propriety of this conviction depends upon the question of the constitutionality of the act of assembly imposing a tax upon the business of a coupon-broker. See section 65, ch. 450, Acts 1888-84, p. 590. In the case of Com’th v. Maury, reported in 82 Va. 882, this precise question was submitted to this court and determined in favor of the constitutionality of that act,
Judgment aeeirmed.