Commonwealth v. Fairgraves

Rossiter, P. J.,

This is a certiorari to a magistrate, commanding him to send up his record so that the court may review the same and ascertain whether the summary proceedings had were in compliance' with, the requirements of the law regulating such proceedings. The cases are before us, not for the purpose of testing the validity of the law, but the regularity of the proceedings. It has been urged that the law is obsolete and that this is a religious controversy between those seeking a “Puritanical” Sunday and those inclined to a more liberal policy. There is no exception covering the former,…