BUSEY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 235.

319 U.S. 579 (1943)

BUSEY ET AL. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 14, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hayden C. Covington for petitioners.

Mr. Vernon E. West, with whom Mr. Richmond B. Keech was on the brief, for respondent.


PER CURIAM.

In this case petitioners, who are Jehovah's Witnesses, were convicted of selling, on the streets of the District of Columbia, magazines which expound their religious views, without first procuring the license and paying the license tax required by § 47-2336 of the District of Columbia Code (1940). In affirming the conviction the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia below had two questions before...

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