Buzan v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
Appeal from a conviction of disturbing religious worship; penalty, a fine of $25. Appeal from the County Court of Hood. Tried below before the Honorable J. P. Mahan. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
McCORD, Judge.
Appellant was convicted in the court below for unlawfully and wilfully disturbing a congregation assembled for religious worship by loud and vociferous talk, and by loud yelling and squalling, etc., his punishment being assessed at a fine of $25, the case having been tried before the court without the intervention of a jury.
We find in the record a bill of exceptions to the action of the court in permitting the State to prove by the witness Woods that “in the opinion of the witness it was defendant's face at the window in the church where the disturbance is alleged to have taken…
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