Morris v. Sevy

Fox, Judge:

This is a proceeding in prohibition instituted in the Court of Common Pleas of Kanawha County,. seeking to prohibit Forest E. Sevy, a Justice of the Peace of said county, from further proceeding in the prosecution of a criminal charge against the petitioner, Roy K. Morris, then pending before him, and based upon an allegation that he permitted the playing of a juke box or other musical instrument of like character at his place of business, used in the retail sale of nonintoxicating beer, after eleven o’clock p. m. on week-days .and. on Sundays, at any time, in violation of…