A Sunday-Law Conviction by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jun 15, 1882

A Sunday-Law Conviction.

By Editor

It has been so long since any cases have been tried under the Sunday Law, and so much longer since a conviction has been obtained, that we, in common with many others, had almost forgotten that such a law was in existence. It has yet a little life, however, as may be seen by the following item from the San Francisco Chronicle, of June 11:—

"A genuine surprise was afforded yesterday morning in Judge Rix's Court by the conviction of J. C. Scott, a Third-street stationer, who was charged by Officer Whan with having kept his store open on the 19th of last March, which was a Sunday. Scott was tried by a jury, which spent a quarter of an hour before determining upon the defendant's guilt."