New York Supreme Court July 15, 1841 (People v. Jenkins)

By the Court, Bronson, J.

I can see nothing in the cases referred to by the defendant’s counsel tending to show, that the statute in question is repugnant either to the constitution ,of the United States, or to any law which congress has passed under its power “ to regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states and the cases mentioned by the district attorney abundantly