State v. Bryson.
Supreme Court of North Carolina
INDICTMENT for Disturbing a Religious Congregation, tried at Fall Term, 1879, of GastqN Superior Court, before Buxton, J. The bill of indictment is as follows : The jurors, &c., present that on the first day of April, 1878, &c., a number of citizens were peacefully assembled at Sandy Plain church in said county for religious worship of Almighty God, and the said persons being then and there assembled together for the purpose aforesaid, and actually engaged in Divine worship,…
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INDICTMENT for Disturbing a Religious Congregation, tried at Fall Term, 1879, of GastqN Superior Court, before Buxton, J. The bill of indictment is as follows : The jurors, &c., present that on the first day of April, 1878, &c., a number of citizens were peacefully assembled at Sandy Plain church in said county for religious worship of Almighty God, and the said persons being then and there assembled together for the purpose aforesaid, and actually engaged in Divine worship, P. J. Bryson, well knowing the purpose of the said meeting, with force and arms did then and there by loud talking with…
1Opinion of the CourtDiuLakd, J.
The indictment charges that while the congregation at Sandy Plain church were assembled for and actually engaged in Divine -worship, the defendant disturbed the said congregation by loud talking with oaths.
The facts charged amounted to an indictable offence, and if proved as laid, warranted the conviction of the defendant. At the trial no witnesses were introduced except on the part /of the-state, and they established that defendant, on the occasion of the alleged disturbance, came-up near the church door,, .and asked aside one Smith, and when they had retired •some twenty or thirty steps, he…
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