Legal Opinion

State v. Woodward

West Virginia Supreme Court

Decided October 25, 1910PublishedCited by 51 opinions

Error to Circuit Court, Randolph County. James R. Woodward was convicted of keeping open a saloon on Sunday, and brings error.

1Opinion of the Court

BraNNON, Judge:

By chapter 14 of the extra session of 1908, Supplement Code issued in 1909, § 933a 1, a new offense is created. In its first section it enacts, that “All rooms, except drug stores, where any of the liquors mentioned in section one, paragraph c, chapter thirty-six, acts of nineteen hundred and five, are sold or kept for sale, either at wholesale or retail, shall be kept closed and securely locked on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, from and after the hour of twelve o’clock Saturday night and until five o’clock on the morning of the succeeding Monday, and no…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Mugler v. KansasSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
  2. Lawton v. SteeleSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
  3. In Re KemmlerSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  4. Kidd v. PearsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  5. Wilkerson v. UtahSupreme Court of the United States · 1879

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3Cited by51 opinions

  1. Ex Parte GranvielCourt of Criminal Appeals of Texas · 1978
  2. State v. VanceWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1980
  3. State Ex Rel. Frazier v. MeadowsWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1994
  4. State v. HoustonUtah Supreme Court · 2015
  5. Farley v. GraneyWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1960

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