State v. Wright
Supreme Court of Arkansas
APPEAL from Sebastian Circuit Court. Hon. R. B. Rutherford, Circuit Judge. The object of the statute is to protect not only the congregation en masse, but each and every member of the congregation, while engaged in religious worship. The disturbance ■of one or more is sufficient. McBlvey v. State, 25 Tex., ■507-, Friedlander v. State, 7 Tex. (Ot. App.), 204; Vockerham v. Slate, 7 Humph. (Tenn.), 11.
1Opinion of the CourtEnglish, C. J.
A. J. Wright was indicted in the circuit ■court of Sebastian county, for the Greenwood district, for disturbing religious worship. The indictment charges that ■said Wright, on the twentieth day of August, 1882, in the county of Sebastian aforesaid, unlawfully and contemptucusly did disturb a certain congregation assembled in Burns-ville school house for religious worship, by talking in a manner that was calculated to disturb said congregation, against the peace, etc. He pleaded not guilty, and the case was submitted to the'court, sitting as a jury, by consent.
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