Case Name: J. S. Phillips v. The State
Court: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
Jurisdiction: Texas
Decision Date: 1917-02-28
Citations: 81 Tex. Crim. 658
Docket Number: No. 4339
Parties: J. S. Phillips v. The State.
Judges: 
Reporter: Texas Criminal Reports
Volume: 81
Pages: 658–659

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.