Commonwealth v. Williams

By the Court.

The defendant was convicted before a justice of the peace for laboring in his business as a barber on Sunday, and fined four dollars under the act of Assembly.

The act declares, “ that if any person shall do or perform any worldly employment or business whatsoever on the Lord’s day, commonly called Sunday, works of necessity and charity only excepted, etc., they shall forfeit and pay four dollars,” etc. The first question presented on the record is, whether the employment of a barber in shaving a man comes within the prohibition of the act? and, secondly, whether the labor…