Pimple v. King

The defendants are traveling evangelists. They were convicted of resisting the execution of an ordinance and the order of the mayor of Alma, Michigan. The people’s testimony tends to show that the defendants began holding religious meetings on July 13, 1925, in Wright Park, a city park in Alma, Michigan. The park adjoins the Michigan Old People’s Masonic Home and Hospital. No formal permission was given by the city, but the meetings continued without objection until complaints came in of excessive noise and misuse of the park. The city commission- then decided to deny the use of the park to…