In the courts of many other States, statutes imposing a penalty for peddling, without a license, all goods of particular kinds, and not discriminating against goods brought from other States, or from foreign countries, have been held not to be repugnant to the Constitution of the United States.

—the indicted merchant defendants argued that the Missouri tax violated the US Constitution' s provisions giving the power to regulate foreign commerce to the federal government and prohibiting the states from charging duties on

—the Supreme Court held that it was not essential to the validity of an indictment charging evasion of a tax on vendors of merchandise to allege that the defendant sold at retail since this was primarily a defensive matter based on a constitutional prohibition against taxing the sale of items in original packages.

—on the ground that it did not appear that the goods were sold in the original packages, the goods appearing to have been sold at retail and not in the original packages, and therefore not within the decision of US Supreme Court in Brown

—noting that Blackstone, Greenleaf (a treatise on evidence), and Chitty (a treatise on criminal law and procedure) were common sources

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