Exceptions to tbe Court of Common Pleas. This case was a criminal complaint before the Justice Court of Coventry for a violation of Pub.
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1878-07-05
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 1951
4 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
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We think the defect in the name of the society was clerical merely and not such as to mislead, and, therefore, not a ground for quashing the complaint. We think a camp meeting is
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a religious meeting, and, therefore, inasmuch as the society named is alleged to be a religious society, that it was not necessary to allege that the meeting was held for a “ purpose connected with the object for which the society was organized,” that being implied. The first two exceptions are therefore overruled. But, on the other hand, we do not think the government was entitled to a verdict of guilty against the defendant without proving that the society named was a religious society, and that the meeting which it was holding was a camp meeting, or without proving the negative averments of the complaint, they being in our opinion essential parts of it. The other exceptions are, therefore, sustained.
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The following year another complaint issued against the same defendant, Bead, for a violation of the same statute. In this proceeding his counsel alleged that the statute in question was unconstitutional. These cases are printed together to avoid confusion in reference; the parties being the same.
