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BUSEY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 7918.

138 F.2d 592 (1943)

BUSEY et al. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided November 8, 1943.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hayden C. Covington, of Brooklyn, N. Y., submitted on the brief for appellant.

Messrs. Richmond B. Keech, Corporation Counsel, Vernon E. West, Principal Assistant Corporation Counsel, and Edward W. Thomas, Assistant Corporation Counsel, all of Washington, D. C., for appellee, submitted no brief.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.

EDGERTON, Associate Justice.

Appellants were convicted of selling copies of Consolation and Watch Tower, magazines published by Jehovah's Witnesses, on the streets of the District of Columbia without paying a license "tax" or fee and in other respects complying with the license law.1 Each appellant was sentenced to a fine of $5, or one day in jail.

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