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Jury Trial Denied Sunday Violators

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jun 22, 1911

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 88, No. 25.

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Jury Trial Denied Sunday Violators

By Leslie Littell

TWENTY-TWO baseball players and nine theater people were arrested last week, in Fort Smith, Ark., for violating Sunday laws. They were denied the right of trial by jury, and fined from one dollar to ten dollars each, and costs. The Constitution declares that “in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury,” and that this right shall “remain inviolate.”
Ministers and members of the law and order league are back of this movement. It is an attempt to overrule the rights of conscience and justice, without due process of law, and will no doubt become a precedent to be used in the future against Sabbath-keepers.
LESLIE LITTELL.