State v. Zimmerman

The affidavit in this case charges, “that Samuel Zimmerman, Samuel Disler, Lewis Jacoby, Washington Shirley, John Shirley and Albert Bund did, on the 30th day of December, A. D. 1874, at the county of Allen, and State of Indiana, unlawfully interrupt, molest and disturb a certain collection of divers inhabitants of the State of Indiana, met together as a singing-school, by then and there unlawfully forcing their way into the house, against the rules of said singing-school, and making a noise by loud and unnecessary talking, contrary to the form of the statute,” etc.

The prosecution was…