Williamson v. State
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Indictment for misdemeanor; from Bartow superior court— Judge Fite. March 27, 1911.
1Opinion of the CourtIIill, C. J.
J. R. Williamson was convicted of violating section 416 of the Penal Code of 1910, which declares that “any person who shall pursue his business, or the work of his ordinary calling, on the Lord’s day, works of necessity or charity only excepted, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.” His motion for a new trial being overruled, he brings error.
The evidence in support of the accusation, briefly stated, is as follows: Williamson was foreman of a crew connected with the yard of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company at Junta, Ga. Between the hours of midnight and 3 o’clock a. m., Sunday, he was…
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