Cortesy v. Territory of New Mexico
New Mexico Supreme Court
Error, from a judgment convicting defendant of selling liquors on Sunday, to the Fifth Judicial District Court, Socorro County. Motion for rehearing overruled, O’Brien, C. J., dissenting. The court states the ease on the rehearing.
1Opinion of the CourtLee, J.
The statute for the observance of the Sabbath, prior to the amendment of 1887, provided that “any person or persons who should be found on thé first day of the week, called Sunday, engaged in any games, or sport, or horse racing, cock fighting, dancing, or in any other manner disturbing any worshiping assembly or private family, or in buying or selling goods, wares, or merchandise, chattels, or liquors, or any other kind of property, * * * or engaged in any labor, except works of necessity, charity, or mercy, shall be,” etc., which provisions were subject to a proviso that it did not apply to…
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