State v. Heard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Provosty, J.

The defendant was found guilty under an information charging him, as follows: — that he did “wilfully and feloniously keep his saloon open on Sunday and did then and there wilfully and unlawfully sell, barter and give to Austin Montgomery one flask of whiskey out of the stock kept in said saloon, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc.

The law thus charged to have been violated by the defendant is Act 18 of 1886, commonly known as the Sunday law, which reads, as follows:

“That from and after the 31st day of December, 1886, all stores,…