State v. Ringer

The defendant was indicted for disturbing a religious society convened for public worship. The indictment was quashed by the Circuit Court.

The charge, as laid in the indictment, is that the defendant “ being present at and when a certain religious society was convened and met together for the worship of Almighty God, *did then and there interrupt, molest, and disturb said society and meeting, and the individual members thereof, by then and there in a loud, insulting, and boisterous manner talking, &c.”

The objections made to the indictment, are, 1, That it con*117tains two distinct offenses in the…