Williams v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
Erom the Circuit Court of. Cherokee. • Tried before the Hon. James Aiken. The defendant in this case was indicted for disturbing religious worship, pleaded not guilty, was convicted, and fined twenty dollars.
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Erom the Circuit Court of. Cherokee. • Tried before the Hon. James Aiken. The defendant in this case was indicted for disturbing religious worship, pleaded not guilty, was convicted, and fined twenty dollars. On the trial, as the bill of exceptions shows, the State introduced several witnesses, who testified, in substance, that they were present at a meeting held for religious worship, within twelve months before the finding of the indictment, when the defendant came in, “wearing a pair of false mustaches; that he went forward, while the preacher was calling for mourners, and , extended his…
1Opinion of the CourtClopton, J.
— To constitute the statutory offense with which the defendant is charged, an assemblage of people, who have met for religious worship, must be willfully interrupted or disturbed by noise, profane discourse, rude or indecent behavior, or other act of like character, at or near the place of worship.- — Code, § 4199. Willfully, as employed in the statute, has been construed as synonymous with intentionally, or designedly. When either of the acts declared by the statute to be an ingredient of the offense is committed intentionally, and its natural tendency is to interrupt or disturb the…
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