People v. Torson

Mr. Presiding Justice Baume

delivered the opinion of the court.

On a trial before a justice of the peace the defendant was found guilty by a jury of unlawfully keeping open a tippling house, or other place where liquor was-sold or given away, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, contrary to the form of the statute, etc., and his fine was fixed by the jury at' $30. From the judgment entered upon such verdict defendant prayed an appeal to the circuit court where upon a trial by jury he was found guilty in manner and form as charged in the complaint, and thereafter the defendant…