Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1880-11-19
Words IN Court.

In Stat against All Sam, the Nevada Su-
preme Court, under statute forbidding
any one ''to resort" to any place to smoke
opium, said: "The appellant also contends
that the district judge erred in instruct
ing the jury to the effect that going once
to a place kept for opium smoking for the
purpose of smoking is an lnfraction of the
law. What the statute forbids all persons
to do is to resort to such places, and it is
argued that resort means not merely to go
once, but to go and go again; in other
words, to make a practice of going. The
etymology of the word resort lends some
support to this argument, but the dedni-
ton given in the lexicons shows that what
ever may have been its original meaning
it no longer means anything more in the
connection In which it is employed in the
statute than to go once.'
Eggs" are not meat" nor ''poultry"
within statute prohibiting the sale of
such articles when unsound. Boring
| through floor with an augeI constitutes
burglary, says the Alabama Supreme
Court. in Walker against State. This was
where the prisoner bored a hole through
the floor of a corn crib, stopped it up with
cob, and afterward, on separate oc-
casion, drew the shelled corn through the
hole into sack underneath the crib.
s'Brass knucks" is used in the statute as
the name of a weapon, without reference
to the metal of which it is made. There
fore. a conviction Of unlawfully carrying
'sbrass knucks'' will not be set aside be-
cause it was proved that the weapon was
lead or pewter.
| 'sTerms cash" is not an equivalent to
received payment" ''Terms cash." on
an unreceipted bill sent by a wholesale to
retail dealer, cannot be held as matter of
law to imply that the goods were paid for
before they were shipped.
| A farm overseer is not a ''laborer'' with
in the lien law Notes, bills, etc., repre-
senting money loaned on interest by a
corporation, are property liable to taxa
ton. A railroad depot is a "warehouse"
within the statute of burglary.
| A Sunday school is not "Divine wor-
Ship" but building for the sessions of a
Sunday school and religious lectures is for
a religious purpose" although occasion
ally used for fairs and other benevolent
purposes. The court said lin Pennsyl-
vania case): 1.-The Sunday school rooms
and the lecture room of modern church
are as essentially used for religious pur-
poses as the body Of the church itself.
The Sabbath schools are an important
auxiliary of every Christian church, and
indispensable to Its life and growth. That
main of religious character is too we'll
known to be seriously disputed. So of the
lecture room. 1t is used for the mid week
evening lectures and other services, when
the attendance is not large. The expense
of lighting and heating the main church
building is thus avoided. But the SER
vices upon such occasions are as truly re-
liglous in their character as the sermon
upon the Sabbath
A supervising architect is a person per-
forming labor although not Ga
borer," within the meaning of tue me-
chanics' lien law, A widow keeping a
boarding house, with female friend re-
siding with her, and female servants, be-
sides the boarders, is the ''head of a
family" But a single man, who keeps
house and has no other persons living with
him than servants and employees, is not
the ''head of faulty" or 'shousehol-
J der" And an unmarried man, who does
not keep house. but supports his mother
and his unmarried sister, who boards with
} his married sister iu another town, is not
the 'head of a family, ALBANY Lac
: Journal.