Crocket v. State

Indictment for violation of the act of February 28th, 1855, 2 G. & H. 481, for the protection of the Sabbath. Trial by the court; conviction; and, over a mo*417tion for a new trial, a fine imposed. The proof on the trial was that the appellant had three or four times, on different Sundays, worked at a certain malt house in turning a heap of barley, for the purpose of malting the same, it requiring an hour or two to do the work each time.

On the part of the defendant, it was proved that the process of malting the barley was as follows: Into a tub, calculated to hold three hundred bushels when half…