Martin v. State

The plaintiff in error was indicted for keeping open his employer’s saloon on Sunday. He was convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of $25 and the costs of the cause. He has appealed in error to this court.

The facts shown by the record are as follows:. Plaintiff in error was a bartender for Charles Geiger, the owner of a saloon on Church street, in the city of Nashville. On Sunday, the first day of November, 1903, about 9 o’clock in the morning, the plaintiff in error was found in the saloon of his employer by an officer, who Went there for the purpose of investigating a rumor he had heard as…