Klug v. State

Jackson, Chief Justice.

Frederick Klug was -convicted of keeping open a tippling-house on the Sabbath ; the court below denied him H> new trial, and the case is here on assignments of error on- that denial.

*7361. The evidence is abundant to prove his guilt; a policeman saw the gate open and a blind negro standing in it; the door of the tippling-house open, too, and defendant’s clerk and somebody else inside the house. The gist of this offence is to keep the house open to ingress and egress. The high paling relied on by the counsel of plaintiff to stop such egress and ingress does not avail him,…