Williams v. State

Section 416 of the Penal Code provides that “Any person who shall pursue his business, or the work of his *161ordinary calling, on the Lord’s day, works of necessity or charity only excepted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” The Court of Appeals desires instruction upon the following question: “In the light of modern-day methods of travel by automobile, the motor-power of which is derived from the use of gasoline, and in the light of the present-day use to which automobiles axe put, is the sale of gasoline on the Sabbath a cwork of necessity’ as contemplated by section 416 of the Penal Code of…