Kinney v. State
Supreme Court of Alabama
• From the Circuit Court of Winston. "Tried before the Hon, Wm. S. Mudd. 'The indictment in this case charged, that the prisonér ■“'willfully interrupted or disturbed an assemblage-of people met for religióús -worship, by noise, profáne discourse, or rude or indecent behavior, at ornear the placeM-of worship.”
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• From the Circuit Court of Winston. "Tried before the Hon, Wm. S. Mudd. 'The indictment in this case charged, that the prisonér ■“'willfully interrupted or disturbed an assemblage-of people met for religióús -worship, by noise, profáne discourse, or rude or indecent behavior, at ornear the placeM-of worship.” “On the trial,” as the bill of' exceptions states, “the prosecution adduced testimony-tending to-show that, within twelve months before the finding of the indictment, and in said county of Winston, the defendant willfully interrupted and disturbed an i-assemblage of -people -met for…
1Opinion of the CourtR. W. Walker, J.
Section 3257 of the Code' ¿riácts, that “any person, who willfully interrupts or disturbs any assemblage of people met for religious worship, by noise, profane discourse, rude or indecent behavior, or by any other act at or near the place of worship,‘must, on conviction, be fined not less than twenty, or;moi’e than two hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned not ,more!..tban six months,”
In Tennessee, the statute on this -subject jjroitided, that “if any person shall interrupt a'congregation assembled for the purpose of worshipping -.the Deity, such person shall be dealt with as a rioter…
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