Rich v. Commonwealth
Supreme Court of Virginia
The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtSpratley, J.
James E. Rich, Jr., hereinafter called the defendant, was found guilty by a jury of violating the Sunday Law (Virginia Code, 1950, § 18-329, as amended by Acts 1954, chapter 131) and fined $100. The warrant upon which he was tried charged the defendant with laboring at his trade or calling by operating a retail grocery store on Sunday, June 12, 1955. It negatived the fact that he was engaged in household work or other work of necessity.
The evidence is without conflict, it being conceded, upon the trial, that sales of groceries were being made by employees of the defendant as charged, and that…
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