Case ID: tex-crim_81/html/0658-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

J. S. Phillips v. The State.
    No. 4339.
    Decided February 28, 1917.
    Final Opinion October 22, 1917.
    Sunday Law — Moving Pictures — Companion Case.
    Where appellant was convicted of a violation of the Sunday law, under article 302, Penal Code, for exhibiting in a place of amusement a moving picture show on Sunday, and appealed, the case must he affirmed in accordance with a companion case, recently decided. Davidson, Presiding Judge, dissenting.
    [Pinal dissenting opinion October 33, 1917. — Beporter.]
    Appeal from the County Court of Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. Jesse M. Brown.
    Appeal from a conviction óf a violation of the Sunday law; penalty, a fine of twenty-five dollars.
    The opinion states the case.
    No brief on file for appellant.
    
      E. B. Hendricks, Assistant Attorney General, Marshall Spoonts, Will Parker, S. J. Calloway, and Turner, Cummings & Doyle, for the State.
   DAVIDSON, Presiding Judge.

This conviction was for violation of article 303, P. C., wherein appellant was convicted for exhibiting in a place of amusement a moving picture show on Sunday.

The majority of the court have held the law constitutional and valid in the Zucarro case, this day decided. I do not believe the decision correctly decides the law, but the majority have held the other way, and in obedience to their finding this judgment will be affirmed.

Affirmed.