Commonwealth v. Waldman
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 214 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 1 February Term 1890, Q. S. On February 4, 1890, an order was made by the court below allowing to William R. Waldman an appeal from tbe judgment of a magistrate, convicting the appellant of a violation of the act of April 22, 1794, 3 Sm.
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APPEAL BY DEFENDANT FROM THE COURT OF QUARTER SESSIONS OF PHILADELPHIA COUNTY. No. 214 July Term 1890, Sup. Ct.; court below, No. 1 February Term 1890, Q. S. On February 4, 1890, an order was made by the court below allowing to William R. Waldman an appeal from tbe judgment of a magistrate, convicting the appellant of a violation of the act of April 22, 1794, 3 Sm. L. 177, by performing labor on Sunday, January 26 and February 2, 1890, at his place of business in Philadelphia. A transcript of the magistrate’s record having been filed in pursuance of the order of the court, the case was called…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion,
Mr. Chief Justice Paxson:
The defendant is a barber, and was convicted before a magistrate, under the act of April 22,1794, 3 Sm. L. 177, for performing his worldly employment or business on the Lord’s day, commonly called Sunday. The magistrate imposed the usual penalty, and from his judgment an appeal was taken to the Quarter Sessions, under the act of April 17,1876, P. L. 29. The *98judgment was affirmed by that court, and tbe record brought up by a writ of certiorari.
The act of 1794 has now been in force for nearly one hundred years. It has been before this court in repeated,…
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