Walton v. City of Tupelo

The appellant Dale Walton was tried and convicted in the police court of the City of Tupelo during the early part of the year 1955 on the charge of having kept open a grocery store on the Sabbath day, to-wit on January 2, 1955. He appealed to the circuit court from his conviction and sentence. In May 1955 the prosecution was nol-prossed in the circuit court upon payment of the court costs. Thereafter, on November 19, 1955, he was again arrested on the same charge, entered a plea of nolo contendere in the police justice’s court, and then appealed again to the circuit court, wherein he was…