Culpepper v. State

CARR, Judge.

The defendant in the lower court was adjudged guilty by the judge sitting without a jury. The offense charged was disturbing public worship. Title 14, Sec. 117, Code 1940.

The evidence introduced by the State tended to show that a group of about fifty persons gathered at a simple little rural church. Some of these were there for the purpose of worship. Others, it appears, were there for fun and frolic without due regard for the solemnity of the occasion and rightful respect for an orderly service. If the testimony of the witnesses for the State is to be accepted, the appellant was…