Carver v. State

The appellant was indicted under the act providing penalties for the desecration of the Sabbath. The' charge iu the indictment is alleged in the following words:

“ That, on the 16th day of November, 1879, which was the first day of the week commonly called Sunday, Sidney A. Carver, ’who was then and there a person over the age of fourteen years, at and in the county of Decatur and State of Indiana,'did then and there unlawfully engage in common labor and his usual avocation, in this, to wit, that he did then and there unlawfully sell and deliver to one Harvey D. Stagg two cigars, and receive…