Standen v. State

For convenience William Standen will hereinafter be called “defendant” and the State of Ohio “plaintiff.”

William Standen was charged by affidavit before a justice of the peace in and for Wadsworth township, Medina county, Ohio, with unlawfully exhibiting a theatrical performance, to-wit, a motion picture show, on Sunday. The defendant waived examination and was bound over to the probate court of Medina county. Trial was had in said court without the intervention of a jury and resulted in conviction and sentence. Error was prosecuted from said court to the court of common pleas, which resulted…