State v. O'Rourk
Nebraska Supreme Court
Exceptions to the decision of the district court for Lancaster county, Hall, J., presiding. Filed under the provisions of section 515 of the Criminal Code. The defendants were arrested on a complaint charging them with violating section 241 of the Criminal Code, by playing base-ball on Sunday, as an exhibition at which ah admission fee was charged. The case was' tried on a stipulation of facts before the county judge.
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Exceptions to the decision of the district court for Lancaster county, Hall, J., presiding. Filed under the provisions of section 515 of the Criminal Code. The defendants were arrested on a complaint charging them with violating section 241 of the Criminal Code, by playing base-ball on Sunday, as an exhibition at which ah admission fee was charged. The case was' tried on a stipulation of facts before the county judge. He held that the complaint and stipulation do not charge or establish facts constituting an offense under the laws of the state of Nebraska. The defendants' were discharged.…
1Opinion of the Court
Maxwell, Ch. J.
In April, 1891, the county attorney of Lancaster county filed in the county court a complaint as follows:
“The complaint and information of James G. Guild of said county made before me, Willard E. Stewart, county judge of said county, on this 30th day of April, A. D. 1891, who, being duly sworn on his oath, says: That Tim O’Rourk, Charles S. Abbey, Clarence Baldwin, John O’Brien, Clarence Conley, William Goodenough, Frederick Ely, Charles Hamburg, Jewett Meekin, Charles Collins, John Cline, Henry Raymond, John Rowe, Jesse Burkett, John Irwin, Owen J. Patten, Philip Tomney, Park…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- State v. WilliamsMissouri Court of Appeals · 1889
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