In Re Baxter

The petitioner was convicted in the Municipal Court of the City of Providence upon a complaint charging him with opening his shop, store, and place of trade and entertainment, on Sunday, he being the keeper thereof, in violation of an ordinance of the’ city forbidding it. The record of the conviction has been brought before us by a writ of certiorari, and we are asked for several reasons to set it aside as void.

We think the conviction ought to be set aside, because the ordinance in respect of the clause of it under which the conviction was obtained is inconsistent with the statute law of the…