Bloodsworth v. State

Appellant was convicted of the offense of “interrupting or disturbing an assemblage of people met for religious worship” under the provisions of section 3881 of the Code of 1923.

The meeting was of those known as the “Assemblers of God,” otherwise referred to as a “Holiness Meeting.” There was much testimony offered on behalf of appellant to the effect that neither the conduct charged to him in the state’s evidence, nor any other .conduct, could have, in fact, disturbed the meeting in question, because of its inherently boisterous nature. However, the evidence on the part of the state was to…