State v. Conger

Information for violation of the Sabbath. The charge is, that the defendant, on the 5th of July, 1857, at, &c., was then and there unlawfully found at common labor and engaged in his usual avocation, by then and there playing and betting at a certain game of cards with Lewis L. Thomas and John Risinger, for the sum of twenty-five cents, the said common labor not being the work of necessity or charity, &c.

Motion to quash the information sustained, and the state excepted.

The statute upon which this prosecution is based, declares that if any person, &c., shall be found on the first *397day of the…