Case Name: Blahut vs. The State
Court: Arkansas Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Arkansas
Decision Date: 1879-11
Citations: 34 Ark. 447
Docket Number: 
Parties: Blahut vs. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Arkansas Reports
Volume: 34
Pages: 447–448

Head Matter:
Blahut vs. The State.
1. Sabbath-Breaking : Keeping open saloon on Sunday.
Appellant was a nominal partner in a saloon, and he and another bar-tender attended by turns on Sundays to furnish liquor to customers entering at the back door; the front door being kept closed. Held guilty of the offense of Sabbath-breaking by keeping open a dram-shop on Sunday.
APPEAL from Garland Circuit Court.
Hon. J. M. Smith, Circuit Judge.
Henderson, Attorney General, for appellee.

Opinion:
Eakin, J.
Appellant, William Blahut, was indicted, together with J. Blahut, for Sabbath-breaking by keeping open a dram-shop on Sunday. They severed. William Blahut was tried by a jury, convicted, fined, denied a new trial, and then appealed, on the ground that the evidence did not support the verdict.
It tended to show that appellant was a nominal partner in a saloon, and one of the bar-tenders. For a year before the indictment it had been the habit to close the front door of the saloon on Sunday, and leave unfastened a back door, through which persons might, and did, come to buy drinks. Appellant and another bar-tender attended by turns on Sunday to furnish the liquor.
This, if true, constituted the offense of keeping open a dram-shop. The jury were proper judges of the weight of the evidence.
Affirm.