Turner v. State
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Appeal from Bradley Circuit Court; Henry W. Wells, Judge; statement by thje court. Appellant was indicted for the crime of Sabbath breaking, committed by cleaning out the boilers at Arkansas Lumber Company’s mill plant.
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Appeal from Bradley Circuit Court; Henry W. Wells, Judge; statement by thje court. Appellant was indicted for the crime of Sabbath breaking, committed by cleaning out the boilers at Arkansas Lumber Company’s mill plant. S. F. Mitchell, on behalf of the State, testified that he knew the defendant, who was a colored man, then in the court room; that defendant was a fireman at the Arkansas Lumber Company’s saw mill, and worked the same on Sunday morning as he did on any other- morning; that it was his duty to clean out the sediment that had collected in the boilers; that, unless this was done at…
1Opinion of the Court
Hart, J.,
(after stating the facts.) The principles of law involved in this case are settled by the case of Shipley v. State, 61 Ark. 216.
The difficulty in cases of this sort is a proper application of the principles. The keeping of the Sabbath as a day of rest is observed in all civilized as well’as Christian countries.
The testimony shows that the boilers must be cleaned as often as once a week to keep them from burning out and to enable them to properly do the work for which they are used. It is also an undisputed fact that it takes ten or twelve hours for the boilers to cool off so that…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Shipley v. StateSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1895
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