Brown v. State

This cause originated in the county court of Lancaster county, where a complaint was filed charging plaintiff in error with selling intoxicating liquors on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday. The complaint charged, “that on or about the 17th day of February, 1884, at the county of Lancaster, and state of Nebraska, that being the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday,” the defendant “ then and there did wickedly, willfully, and unlawfully sell,” to the parties named in the complaint “beer and whisky, the same being malt and spirituous liquors.”

The defendant filed a…