People v. Welt

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the County of Nassau convicting the defendant of a violation of section 2146 of the Penal Law (prohibition of performance of a trade on Sunday). The defendant was fined $10 after trial.

The defendant owns an automatic laundromat business on Jericho Turnpike, Mineóla, Nassau County. On Sunday, March 16, 1958, the defendant’s premises were open to the public, as was the defendant’s usual practice on Sundays. Customers were observed to be entering the store and operating the coin-operated washing machines and dryers, but neither the…