TUCKER v. TEXAS

No. 87.

326 U.S. 517 (1946)

TUCKER v. TEXAS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided January 7, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hayden C. Covington, with whom Mr. Grover C. Powell was on the brief, for appellant.

No appearance for appellee.


MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellant was charged in the Justice Court of Medina County, Texas, with violating Article 479, Chap. 3 of the Texas Penal Code which makes it an offense for any "peddler or hawker of goods or merchandise" wilfully to refuse to leave premises after having been notified to do so by the owner or possessor thereof. The appellant urged in his defense that he was not a peddler or hawker of merchandise, but a minister...

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