Reithmiller v. People
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Jackson. Complaint under Act 267 of 1879 for selling liquors on a legal holiday. Respondent was convicted.
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
The defendant having sold liquor oh Christmas, the 25th of December of last year, was prosecuted for it as for an illegal sale, it being alleged that the day was a legal holiday on which such sales a,re forbidden. ■ The jury having brought him in guilty under the charge given by the court, he alleged exceptions. The first is that Christmas is not a “ legal holiday ” within the meaning of the statute. Pub. Acts 1879, act 267, p. 289.
No one doubts the ability of the Legislature to privilege a small number of designated days from such activities as are not essentially needful thereon, and in…
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