State v. Linsig
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Sco-tt District Court. — M. F. Donegan, Judge. An information was filed before a justice of the peace in Scott County, charging defendant with having committed a “breach of the Sabbath, in that, upon Sunday, the 10th day of October, 1915, at Davenport in said county, he performed work and labor in pursuance of his avocation as a barber, and did then and there publicly conduct and operate a barber shop, and in pursuit of such occupation did then and there” shave…
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Appeal from Sco-tt District Court. — M. F. Donegan, Judge. An information was filed before a justice of the peace in Scott County, charging defendant with having committed a “breach of the Sabbath, in that, upon Sunday, the 10th day of October, 1915, at Davenport in said county, he performed work and labor in pursuance of his avocation as a barber, and did then and there publicly conduct and operate a barber shop, and in pursuit of such occupation did then and there” shave the face of a living man, such labor not being a work of necessity or charity — contrary to law. On this information, a.…
1Opinion of the Court
'Weaver, J.
Counsel for appellant premises his argument with a statement of 34 several propositions of law. We shall make no attempt to set them out seriatim. Most of them are elementary, are not disputed by the State, and have little, or at most remote, application to the question presented by the record. Sifting the wheat from the chaff, the really pertinent propositions are as follows:
1' and lAborTcrimtíon: informalion: sufficiency. I. Appellant claims that the statute, when properly construed, forbids Sunday labor only where the act charged offends’ or disturbs the peace and good order of…
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