Case Name: DAYTON v. SCHMIDT
Court: Ohio Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1924-09-18
Citations: 2 Ohio Law Abs. 760
Docket Number: No. 586
Parties: DAYTON v. SCHMIDT
Judges: 
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 2
Pages: 760–760

Head Matter:
No. 797
DAYTON v. SCHMIDT
Ohio Appeals, 2d Dist, Montgomery County
No. 586.
Decided Sept. 18, 1924
905. PEDDLERS — Showing violation of ordinance prerequisite to conviction for peddling.
Attorneys- — John B. Harsham, Walter V. Snyder, Guy H. Wells and Max G. Dice, for City of Dayton; W. L. Connors, for Schmidt.

Opinion:
BY THE COURT.
Epitomized Opinion
Published Only in Ohio Law Abstract
Schmidt was convicted in Dayton Municipal Court with having unlawfully, as a peddler and huckster, sold and offered for sale on the public streets of Dayton certain goods and merchandise, namely, ice, without having obtained and paid for a license. The affidavit further charged that the ice was not manufactured by Schmidt, and was not a product of his own raising, and that he did not have a license issued by the state to peddle or auction goods.
The conviction Was reversed by the Common Pleas. In sustaining the Common Pleas, the Court of Appeals held:
1. Before the city could secure a lawful conviction of the accused it was incumbent upon it to establish that he sold or offered for sale upon the public highways or - grounds of the city the ice, and that the sale was made as a peddler. As the evidence did not show this to be the case, the conviction was unwarranted.