State v. Thornbury

Defendant was charged in the superior court for Thurston county with the crime of Sabbath breaking, in that on Sunday, April 11, 1937, at or about the hour of twelve-thirty o’clock a. m., he. . then and there did wilfully and unlawfully sell, offer for sale and expose for sale personal property, to-wit, intoxicating liquors, to-wit, beer and wine.”

To that information the defendant interposed a demurrer, which was sustained. The state has appealed.

Counsel for respondent contended in the trial court, as they insist in this court, that § 242, chapter 249, Laws of 1909, p. 963, Rem. Rev. Stat., §…