Case ID: shan-cas_1/html/0396-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Nicholson, C. J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

THE STATE v. JOHN RAULSTON.
    Knoxville,
    June Special Term, 1875.
    CRIMINAL LAW. Keeping a ferry, without license, not indictable.
    The keeping of a ferry without license, and putting an individual across the stream for compensation, is not an indictable offense, and the indictment for such conduct should be quashed. [See Code, secs. 1617, 1696-1720, 1737, 6038, 712, and notes. By the latter section, and also by the Acts of 1897, ch. 2, sec. 4, page 59, a privilege tax is levied on certain ferries.]
   Nicholson, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Eaulston was indicted for keeping a ferry across the Tennessee river without license, and^in violation of law, for charging Mr. Walker 25 cents for putting him across the liver, having no license to keep a ferry.

The circuit judge knowing of no law that constitutes this an indictable offense, quashed the indictment, and the district attorney has appealed.

We are in the same category with the circuit judge. We know of no law that makes Eaulston’s conduct in putting Mr. Walker over at his ferry, and charging him 25 cents, an indictable offense, and we affirm the judgment.