Commonwealth v. Prince

There was evidence tending to show the following: On the evening of the day named in each of these three complaints the defendant was on a public street in Brockton with her niece, one Betty M. Simmons, a girl in her ninth year, of whom the defendant was the custodian. Both the defendant and the child belonged to a religious sect known as “Jehovah’s Witnesses” and as such regarded themselves as “ordained ministers” of God. Betty carried a “magazine bag” on which was printed “Watchtower explains the Theocratic Government” “5¡í a copy.” In the bag were copies of the religious publications…