McKinney v. Nashville

This action was brought against *80McKinney for keeping his saloon open and tippling on Sunday. On appeal to the -Circuit Court, the cause was tried without a jury and the judgment of the Recorder, fining the defendant fifty dollars, was affirmed, and defendant appealed and assigned as error that he is not guilty under the law and facts of the case. The ordinance which it is claimed the defendant violated is as follows: “No licensed merchant, grocer, retailer of. liquors, or other place of ordinary business, or other person, shall keep open, except as hereinafter provided, his, her, or their…